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116: Brett Terpstra's Automation Tricks

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Searchlink File and Searchlink Error

Searchlink file is the exact same thing as Searchlink, but it's designed to run on text files. What I use the most is I assign a keyboard shortcut to the Searchlink main service. So for me, it's Control Shift L. If you pass just a single line of text with no line breaks and no search syntax to Searchlink, it will just search for the text you have highlighted. It would just put a link, a Markdown format link into the document. Like, if I want to link a TV show, I can just write EscalmationPoint IMDB,. highlight just that, run Searchlink on it, and it would replace it with a link to

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