QuickOWL opens configured web or app links with the selected editor text as input.
Use
- Select text in the editor.
- Run QuickOWL: Open Link from Selection from the command palette or editor context menu.
- Choose a saved QuickOWL link.
The extension builds the target URL as:
baseUrl + encodeURIComponent(trimmedSelectedText) + urlSuffix
When urlSuffix is empty and baseUrl is only a protocol such as codex://, QuickOWL opens the protocol URL without appending selected text. This mirrors the Chrome extension behavior.
Commands
- QuickOWL: Open Link from Selection
- QuickOWL: Add Link
- QuickOWL: Add Separator
- QuickOWL: Import Links from TXT
- QuickOWL: Export Links to TXT
- QuickOWL: Configure Links
- QuickOWL: Clear Links
Importing Data
Use QuickOWL: Import Links from TXT VS Code command with the text file containing list of URLs, typically named quickowl_data.txt.
Supported rows use the pipe-separated format:
URL Name|URL before Selected Text|URL after Selected Text|Text
URL Name|URL before Selected Text|URL after Selected Text|Number
The optional first row sep=| is ignored during import and added during export.
Example Entries
These rows can be added to quickowl_data.txt:
Ask Codex|codex://new?prompt=||Text
Ask Claude|https://claude.ai/new?q=||Text
Search Google|https://www.google.com/search?q=||Text
Open JIRA|https://jira.example.com/browse/||Text