Quicklinks

Your own links, kept in the extension's storage and edited in the panel. Enter on a link opens it. A link whose url has a {query} placeholder (https://github.com/search?q={query}; Raycast's {argument} and {argument name="Repo"} are read the same way) drills in instead: the input fills the placeholder as you type, percent-encoded, and Enter opens the filled url (cmd+c copies it). The row shows the placeholder as a tag and the url as its subtitle; the icon is the site's favicon; keywords are extra words the search matches.

The palette is indexed, so a quicklink's name and keywords find it from the root, and the rows after the list are its tools:

row	what
Create Quicklink	a form: name, url, keywords (space or comma separated)
Import Quicklinks	a form with one path field; reads a JSON array of `{name, url, keywords?}` (Raycast's `{name, link}` export too), skips the urls you already have, says how many came in
Export Quicklinks	writes your own links as a JSON array (no ids) to the path, `~/Downloads/pal-quicklinks.json` by default, replacing the file

A url the opener could not take (no scheme, not a path) is refused with the message under the field; a path that cannot be read or written, the same. The detail pane (cmd+i) shows the url in a code block, what the link asks for, its keywords and where it came from.

Keyboard

keys	action
`enter`	Open the url, or drill in to fill its `{query}` first
`cmd+c`	Copy URL, as stored (placeholder included); inside the drill-in, the filled url
`cmd+e`	Edit: the form, filled in
`ctrl+x`	Delete, after a confirm
`cmd+i`	The detail pane

An imported link (from the import file) has Open and Copy URL only.

Setup

Nothing to install and no permission: the links live in <data dir>/pal/storage/quicklinks.json (Storage in the Extensions guide), shared by every config profile.

Settings, [extensions.quicklinks]:

key	type	default	what
`import`	path	(none)	A JSON array of `{name, url, keywords?}` listed alongside your own links, read-only, read on every listing. `~` is expanded. A file that cannot be read lists nothing and says so in the log.

A quicklink file for import looks like this:

[
  { "name": "GitHub search", "url": "https://github.com/search?q={query}", "keywords": ["gh", "code"] },
  { "name": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/{query}" }
]

What it does not do

No {query} at the root: a search link needs its drill-in, so gh rust at the root does not open a GitHub search. Open the link's row first, then type.
No browser choice: the url goes to the system opener. The Bookmarks palette has "Open in Chrome/Safari" for a browser's own bookmarks.
Two different placeholders in one url: every one is filled with the same text, since the drill-in has one input.
Import does not merge edits: a link whose url you already have is skipped, whatever its name or keywords in the file.

Platforms

macOS and Linux, the same on both.

Quicklinks

What it does

Quicklinks

Keyboard

Setup

What it does not do

Platforms

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