Making automatic clickable links in Mail and Notes

Hi,

Mail.

Edit Menu > Add Link.

If the Text is highlighted then that text becomes the Link otherwise the link shows in full.

I don't use Notes.

9:45 pm Wednesday; September 27, 2017

Hi,

That might be to do with the length of the URL you are trying to share.

8:20 pm Thursday; September 28, 2017

Hi

Mail > Edit Menu > Substitutions > Smart Links

For Me it was On in Notes whereas in High Sierra and Mail it was off.

7:34 pm Friday; October 20, 2017

As per this article Write and format notes - Apple Support

Create a link: Type a URL, and it becomes a link automatically. (If it doesn’t, make sure smart links is turned on: Choose Edit > Substitutions > Smart Links.)

Create a checkmark in Smart links .

Hi,

I have an iMac running Sierra as my main computer and a MacBook Pro running High Sierra right next to it most of th time.

I compared the settings between the two.

Despite the Mac User Account on both being the one from the iMac the settings once High Sierra was installed seem to have changed, hence the Off in High Sierra and listing that it was in the Mail app.

for the Points

8:28 pm Thursday; October 26, 2017

Hi,

I agree with tygb.

Links don't work in Mail in both the Sierra and High Sierra versions.

8:31 pm Thursday; October 26, 2017

Hi,

I was agreeing with you.

They don't work in Compose.

In Earlier versions I had seen them go blue and presumed they would work.

It was only checking for this Thread I found that the Default of Off in High Sierra seemed to have overridden the settings that were on Sierra on the same computer before update.

My Mac User Account has been migrated from OS 9 and OS X 10.2 on my G4 through various OSes until Leopard (OS X 10.5) to an MacBook Pro 1,1 that I am not using at the moment that got to OS X 10.5.8 and then to the iMac running Sierra and then the new MacBook Pro running High Sierra now.

It is only at High Sierra I have noticed the change but even then this thread was the prompt to check.

I am finding that many settings that have worked for years across several computers now have to be checked in High Sierra.

8:44 pm Friday; October 27, 2017

I'm not sure how those links came about in your notes but I am guessing it has to do with the way you put them there.

For me, if I type or copy/paste a link and press space or return, it will then make it a link. If however, there are already some white lines below and I decide to use the arrow keys after I c/p the link it will become text.

Open a link in the url bar select it ( command and A ) , copy it ( press command and C ) on the keyboard , then open mail application , compose a mail ( command + N ) , fill up the mail address and in the main body of subject paste the link ( press command and V ) , it will be in the text form , press space bar so that it will be converted into a link .

You can not click the link while it is in compose mail window , send the mail to yourself for the time being or if you send to second person he can click the link , ( when it appears in the inbox , click that link it will open ) .

Found an article Format text in your emails - Apple Support