Someone has indeed: https://github.com/rexim/org-cliplink
It's designed around a linux system, but I am using it just fine on my mac. If you are not on either of those OSs it might still be a good starting point. Alternately/additionally, if you are on a mac, https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-mac-link.html has similar functionality. I use both of these regularly. Cheers, -- Steen > On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:53 AM, Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I have created some links to web pages. In almost al cases I want the >> description to be the title of the >> page. Is there a way to make the default description the title of a web page? >> > > Write a function that uses the link to fetch the page and parse it for the > title? > > I wouldn't be surprised if somebody has already written something like this, > but it > should(TM) be fairly easy to roll your own. > > -- > Nick > >
