It seems that there is no easy way to insert arbitrary text into logseq from a different application via the logseq:// protocol.
Such feature would be very useful to:
- Outlook plugin to insert current email into Logseq
- A Zotero extension could provide a “Send to Logseq” context menu
- Automatically create log entries
This would only require a small change, Logseq already supports capturing of text using:
logseq://x-callback-url/quickCapture?
This mechanism is intended for capturing webpages through a bookmarklet, the insert template can be set in config.edn, see [1].
This should be extended to:
- insert arbitrary text at the current cursor position without creating a new block
- create a new block below the current block and insert text
- same, but create block at bottom/top of page
- create a new page (in principle this is already possible by changing the quickCapture template, but then quickCapture doesn’t work anymore)
The insert options could be:
- Page {current page | today page | named page (create if doesn’t exist)}
- Position {at cursor | new block below current | bottom of page | top of page} (first two only make sense on current page)
- Open new text in Logseq {true | false}
Additionally, there should be a command to query the currently open page, filename, block, selected text etc.
[2] Creating pages externally with the URL scheme - is this possible? - #4 by robertsalsbury