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Paste Hook

The paste hook lets you modify the pasted text:

1. Open the Go → Command Palette... ⇧⌘p and search for "Open Paste Hook". This will create a hook that does nothing but passes the clipboard text as a first argument $1.
2. Modify the hook and call printf "%s" "with the text that you want inserted". Using printf instead of echo because echo causes problems in some edge cases.

Here is a sample paste hook that replaces the word "Nota" with "the awesome Nota":

#!/bin/bash
# @parameters clipboardText
printf "%s" "${1/Nota/the awesome Nota}"

Paste hook is located at path/to/your/workspace/.nota/hooks/paste.extension (e.g. ~/Dropbox/Nota/.nota/hooks/paste.js).

@parameters

If you aren't familiar with the @parameters syntax, read the article first.

@parameters tells Nota which values to pass to the script:

• clipboardText – the text contents of the clipboard
• selectedText – the currently selected text, empty string if no text is selected
• file – the path to the currently opened file
• workspace – the path to the currently opened workspace

Ideas for hooks

• Privacy URLs – A lot of URLs have tracking data. Why not remove the tracking data for your most common URLs?
• Paste URL over text – Create a markdown link when pasting an URL and there is a text selected. A small productivity hack.
• Format pasted text – You may want to strip indents, replace a specific word with another, replace an URL with a markdown link.