A keyboard shortcut for a markdown link in Drafts Keyboard Maestro
Lately, I’ve been doing more of my writing in Drafts. One thing that I miss is a keyboard shortcut for a markdown link. In other writing apps like iA Writer, Byword, Ulysses, and etc, ⌘K is the keyboard shortcut for a markdown link. Since I use links fairly often I miss not having it when I’m writing in Drafts.
I solved this by creating a Keyboard Maestro macro for ⌘K to insert a markdown link when I’m writing in Drafts. Now when I press ⌘K in Drafts I get the markdown link syntax []().
Here’s the macro setup:
First, you have to create a Drafts group. When you do this be sure to set Available in these applications: to Drafts.
Now the macro: