[Brainstorming] Custom Format

[yorkxin]

Supporting custom format while exporting tab(s), has been asked in multiple feature requests.

This post collects some ideas of template variables.

Apply to both tab exporting and current page link:

• Current Date / Time (used as Access Date; need a function to format datetime) #87
• Hostname (e.g. example.com) #121
• Index (1, 2, 3...) (though I think reference-style links can be a built-in feature) #92
• Favicon base64 (really?)
• Regexp Replacement (need a function)
  • General Text Replacement #125
  • Re-formatting Site Title (no warranty!!) #52

Apply to current page only:

• Text Selection (can be used to quote + link) #64
• Image base64 (inline element) #83

Issues:

• Need to provide some snippets so that people can grab common formats from Wiki
• Writing template string means it might not be friendly to non-programmer
• Number of custom formats
• How do they appear on the popup window
• How do they appear on the context menu
• Max items of keyboard shortcuts

[eloycoto]

Hi,

Could we create a template for selection text? Like I would like to get the selection and get the link for that, like:

[${url}][${title}]
Quote: ${quote}

Having templates like this, will allow users to have a lot of customization, like adding dates or functions :) Thanks

[yorkxin]

Hi @eloycoto , thanks for the idea. Quote text (selection text) definitely will be useful!