My Bookmarking Bookmarklet

I iterated on my bookmarklet for authoring a new post. I’ve been sharing more links to other blogs with a few quotes or brief comments. The process for this has been a slog.

With my new bookmarklet, the slog parts are mostly automated, with room for tweaks as I go.

The title is automatically inferred from the current tab
The slug is automatically generated from the title
The selected text is automatically inserted as a blockquote

Here’s the source, which I’ve also saved as a GitHub gist to track the diff over time.

// https://bookmarklets.org/maker/
var date = new Date();
date.setHours(date.getHours() - date.getTimezoneOffset() / 60);
date = date.toISOString().split("T").at(0);
var title = window.prompt("What's a good starter title?", document.title);
var slug = window.prompt(
  "what's a good slug?",
  title.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, "-"),
);
var filename = "content/posts/" + date + "-" + slug + ".md";
var value =
  "#bookmark\n\n# [" + title + "](" + window.location.toString() + ")\n\n";
var quote = window.getSelection().toString();
if (quote) value += "> " + quote + "\n\n";

var url = new URL("https://github.com/danott/www.danott.co/new/main");
url.searchParams.append("filename", filename);
url.searchParams.append("value", value);
window.open(url);