Apple Shortcuts and Creating Notes

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Apple Shortcuts and Creating Notes

Hello, I was experimenting with taking a data extract of my saved data from Pocket (now that it is closing) and using Apple Shortcuts to take that data in a line at a time in the form:

name url

and using that data to create a note (using name as the name of the note and url as the body)

After a lot of messing around that works.

However, each note has a link in it but it is not clickable it is just text: I have to go into each note and hit return to make it a clickable link.

Given that I have loads of notes to generate does anyone know of a way of making a link work as a clickable link when creating a note through Apple Shortcuts (automation)?

Posted on May 24, 2025 3:18 AM

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Alancito

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May 24, 2025 9:37 AM in response to DavidS_01

David ~ I tried it also on MacOS Sequoia 15.5, but it won't produce a clickable link. In the Shortcuts Gallery there's a shortcut "Clipboard Markdown to Notes" and I tried pasting the Markdown below into the clipboard and then running that aforementioned shortcut – the Markdown syntax being: [Name](URL)

[Apple Inc.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc.)

...But the hyperlink was still not clickable. Consider letting Apple know:

Feedback - Notes - Apple

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