org-mac-link.el – Grab links from open Mac applications

This code will allow you to grab the current link or selection from an open mac application and insert it as a hyperlink at point in an org-mode document.

Org-mac-link has its own repository on GitLab.

It's also available in MELPA.

Customize the org group by typing M-x customize-group RET org-mac-link RET.

You may also optionally bind a key to activate the link grabber menu, like this:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
  (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-c g") 'org-mac-link-get-link)))

Activate the grabber by typing C-c g (or whatever key you decided to bind, as above), or type M-x org-mac-link-get-link RET. This will give you a menu in the modeline allowing you to select an application. The current selection in that application will be inserted at point as a hyperlink in your org-mode document.

You may customize which applications appear in the grab menu by customizing the group org-mac-link. Changes take effect immediately. If you are using the org-mode version >=8.2, you can also customize whether the org-mac-link should highlight the selected text when grabbing the link from Skim.app.