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Context Utils

by bwat47
productivity editor
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Description

Adds various options to the right-click context menu in the Markdown Editor and commands for toggling task list items, contextual copy, and fetching link titles.

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Maintainers: bwat47
Version:1.8.1
Minimum app version:3.3
Downloads: This version:28
Last updated:2026-06-26T03:45:42Z

[!note] This plugin was created entirely with AI tools.

[!note] This plugin only supports the markdown editor (codemirror 6). The legacy editor is not supported.

Context Utils

Context Utils is a Joplin plugin that adds various options to the right-click context menu in the Markdown Editor and commands for toggling task list items, contextual copy, and fetching link titles.

Context Menu Options

  • Open Link/Send Email - Open external URLs in browser or open mailto: links in default mail client.

  • Open All Links - Opens all detected HTTP(S) links in the current text selection, in selection order.

  • Add External Link - Insert a hyperlink at the cursor

  • Add Link to Note - Insert a link to another note at the cursor

  • Copy URL/Copy Email - Copy URL to clipboard, or copy email address from mailto: link.

  • Copy Code - Copy code from inline code or code block to clipboard.

  • Copy Heading Link - Display options to copy a markdown link to the heading at the cursor (internal anchor or external note link)

  • Copy Quote - Display option to copy block quote contents without quote markers

  • Toggle Task(s) - Toggle task on selected line or Toggle all tasks in selection(s).

    • Can be assigned a keyboard shortcut (uses CmdOrCtrl+Shift+Space by default).

  • Go to Footnote - Scroll editor to defintion associated with the selected Footnote reference.

  • Go to Heading - Scroll editor to specified heading when right clicking on internal anchor link (e.g. [Test](#test))

  • Open Note as Pinned Tab - Allows you to right click a link to another joplin note and pin it to a tab (requires the Note Tabs plugin)

  • Fetch Link Title(s) - Fetches the title of a URL and updates markdown link to include the title (or converts to a markdown link if its a bare URL). Operates on the single link at the cursor, or every link in the selection.

    • Can be assigned a keyboard shortcut.
    • Note that this results in an outbound request to fetch the web page title.
    • If a linkpreview.net API key is configured in plugin settings, the plugin tries linkpreview.net first and falls back to direct page fetching if needed.
    • Custom link title rules let you derive the link text directly from the URL (no page fetch). See below. Jira links are handled by a default rule.
    • Note that Open All Links and Fetch Link Title(s) do not support reference-style links or links inside embeds.

Custom link title rules

The Custom link title rules (JSON) setting holds a JSON array of rules. When a rule's regex matches a link's URL, "Fetch Link Title" uses that rule's title template as the link text instead of fetching the page. Rules are tried in order; the first matching rule that produces a non-empty title is used. If no rule produces a title, the normal fetch behavior applies.

Each rule is an object:

Field Required Description
pattern yes Regex source tested against the full URL.
title yes Template for the link text. $1–$9 insert capture groups; $& inserts the whole match.
flags no Regex flags, e.g. "i" for case-insensitive.

Example — title a helpdesk ticket link from its track= query parameter so that https://helpdesk.example.com/ticket.php?track=7QF-MZP-9KD2 becomes 7QF-MZP-9KD2:

[{ "pattern": "^https?://helpdesk\\.example\\.com/.*[?&]track=([^&#]+)", "title": "$1", "flags": "i" }]

The default value ships a rule for Jira issue links (e.g. …/browse/PROJ-123 → PROJ-123), you can edit or remove it.

[!note] Joplin settings are a single-line field, so the value must be minified (one line) JSON. Rules use your own regular expressions, so a pathological pattern could make fetching hang — keep patterns simple and anchored.

Contextual Copy

A "Contextual Copy" command is provided that will copy the innermost copyable context at the current cursor position. For example:

  • Cursor inside block quote > copies contents of the block quote
  • Cursor inside a http(s) URL > copies link
  • Cursor inside code block or inline code > copies contents of the inline code/code block
  • Mixed scenario (inline code inside a block quote) > copies code if cursor is inside the inline code, otherwise copies the quote contents.

This can be assigned a keyboard shortcut and uses CmdOrCtrl+Shift+X by default.

Settings

  • Each context menu option can be enabled or disabled in the Plugin settings.
  • Enable/Disable toast messages.
  • Optional secure linkpreview.net API key setting for link title fetching.
  • Custom link title rules (JSON) for deriving link text from the URL (see Custom link title rules).
  • Default heading format for Contextual Copy (internal or external).

Misc Notes

  • Some of these context menu options overlap with the ones provided by the Rich Markdown plugin. Each option can be toggled on/off to avoid conflicts/duplicate menu items.