I’m exploring Hookmark specifically for linking items in Linear to other apps, particularly Obsidian.
I mostly use the Linear desktop app, on Mac.
I’ve come up with the following script for “Get address”. It relies on UI automation as I haven’t found another way to discover the current open item in Linear. (I’ve started a thread on their Slack forum)
delay 0.1
set the clipboard to ""
delay 0.2
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Linear"
keystroke "," using {command down, shift down}
delay 0.5
repeat 50 times -- poll clipboard for ~2.5 seconds
try
if (the clipboard) is not equal to "" then
exit repeat
end if
end try
delay 0.05
end repeat
end tell
set issueUrl to the clipboard
-- Check if the Linear application is running
set useDesktopURL to false
tell application "System Events"
set appList to (name of every process)
if appList contains "Linear" then
set useDesktopURL to true
end if
end tell
if useDesktopURL then
-- Extract team and issue ID from the web URL
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set urlComponents to text items of issueUrl
set team to item 4 of urlComponents
set issueID to item 6 of urlComponents
-- Format the desktop URL
set desktopIssueUrl to "linear://" & team & "/issue/" & issueID
end if
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Linear"
set issueTitle to name of window 1
end tell
end tell
if useDesktopURL then
return "[" & issueTitle & "](" & desktopIssueUrl & ")"
else
return "[" & issueTitle & "](" & issueUrl & ")"
end if
I hope this helps someone. Feedback and complete rewrites welcome.
I will take the following script out because the get Address script is only called when the Linear Desktop app is running. Correct me if this is wrong. I am not familiar Linear.
Linear has made some changes to how the window title is displayed which break the existing integration script. I’ve updated it to use the built-in shortcuts to get ticket and project titles, as well as to properly format project links:
set the clipboard to ""
delay 0.2
-- Get project or ticket title
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Linear"
keystroke "'" using {command down, shift down}
delay 0.1
repeat 50 times -- poll clipboard for ~2.5 seconds
try
if (the clipboard) is not equal to "" then
exit repeat
end if
end try
delay 0.05
end repeat
end tell
set itemTitle to the clipboard
-- Get
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Linear"
keystroke "C" using {command down, shift down}
delay 0.1
repeat 50 times -- poll clipboard for ~2.5 seconds
try
if (the clipboard) is not equal to "" then
exit repeat
end if
end try
delay 0.05
end repeat
end tell
set itemUrl to the clipboard
-- Extract team and item ID from the web URL
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "/"
set urlComponents to text items of itemUrl
set team to item 4 of urlComponents
set itemKind to item 5 of urlComponents
set itemID to item 6 of urlComponents
-- Format the desktop URL
set desktopItemUrl to "linear://" & team & "/" & itemKind & "/" & itemID
return "[" & itemTitle & "](" & desktopItemUrl & ")"
I’m on Version 1.27.5 (2412044qwx4cqqw) as well, on MacOS 15.1.1 (24B91). Not sure why there’s a difference in behavior, but my window titles aren’t updating with the issue title. My updates to the script use the key bindings provided by Linear instead of relying on “secondary” behavior — which is probably worthwhile regardless in order to make the script a little bit more robust.
welcome.