If you use Obsidian for knowledge management, you know the drill: you find an interesting article, you want to save a reference in your vault, and you need to paste it as a Markdown link. In a perfect world, you'd click once and [Article Title](url) would appear in your clipboard, ready to paste into your daily note.
In the real world, you manually construct the link, tab back and forth, and lose your train of thought. This is where a dedicated copy-link-as-Markdown tool becomes essential for Obsidian users.
Obsidian is built on Markdown. Every link in your vault follows the [text](url) format. Obsidian's "Paste as Markdown link" feature (Cmd+Shift+V on Mac, Ctrl+Shift+V on Windows) converts a raw URL from your clipboard into a Markdown link — but it uses whatever text you last copied as the display text, or just the URL itself. It doesn't fetch the page title.
What Obsidian users actually need is a tool that grabs the page title and URL together in one action, formatted as a ready-to-paste Markdown link. That's exactly what Copy as Markdown Link does.
[Page Title](url) appears in your noteTotal time: about 2 seconds per link. For anyone collecting 20-50 references per day during research, that's minutes saved every session.
Obsidian veterans collect hundreds of external references. Without an automated copy-link workflow, you're making thousands of extra keystrokes per month. The friction of manually formatting links adds up — and more importantly, it interrupts your flow state. Every time you alt-tab to grab a URL and come back, you lose a thread of thought.
A good Copy link as Markdown Chrome extension eliminates that friction entirely. The page title + URL land in your clipboard together, formatted correctly, before you even switch back to Obsidian.
Raw page titles often include site branding: "How to Write Better — 2026 Edition - YouTube" or "The Complete Guide to CSS Grid | CSS-Tricks". When these land in your Obsidian notes, they're cluttered and ugly.
Copy as Markdown Link strips common site suffixes automatically, so your Obsidian links look like [How to Write Better — 2026 Edition](url) instead of [How to Write Better — 2026 Edition - YouTube](url). Cleaner notes, less manual editing.
That's it. No configuration, no accounts, no permissions beyond the ones it needs.
Open source · 5KB · Zero tracking · MIT License
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