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Logseq Copilot

Clipping & Templates

Clipping sends what you are reading into your Logseq graph: the text you selected, or the link of the page. A template decides what the new block looks like and which page it goes to.

Ways to Clip

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  • Keyboard shortcut: press Ctrl+Shift+U. You can change it in the browser’s shortcut settings, the command is called Make Clip note. With text selected it clips the selection. With nothing selected it clips the page link.
  • Right-click menu: right-click selected text and choose Clip “…”, or right-click the page and choose Clip page link.
  • Sidebar: click the toolbar icon to open the sidebar, then Clip page to clip the link of the current page, or Clip selection to clip the text you selected on it.
  • Floating button: a small Logseq button that follows your text selection. It is off by default. Turn it on in the options under Settings, Clip Note, Floating Button.

A clipped selection is converted to Markdown first. Links, lists, code blocks and images keep their shape in Logseq. It is also saved as a highlight on the page.

Where the Clip Goes

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The block is added to the end of a page of your graph, chosen by the template:

  • Journal: the journal page of today.
  • Current Page: the page that is open in Logseq right now. On the Journals home, where no single page is open, the clip goes to today’s journal.
  • Custom Page: a page you name.

Templates

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Open the extension options and look at the Templates list in the sidebar.

  • Click + to add a template, and click a template to edit it.
  • Drag a template by its handle to reorder the list. Hover a template to show its delete button.
  • Clipping uses the first template in the list. To clip with another one, drag it to the top.

A template has a name, a clip location (Journal, Current Page or Custom Page with its page name) and the content of the block.

The default template is:

#[[Clip]] [{{title}}]({{url}})
{{content}}

Variables

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Variable Value
{{title}} The title of the page
{{url}} The address of the page
{{content}} The selected content, as Markdown. Empty when you clip a page link.
{{date}} Today’s date, in the date format of your Logseq
{{time}} The current time, as HH:mm
{{dt}} The current date and time as a date object, for filters

Templates are written in LiquidJS, so you can use filters and conditions. For example, {{ dt | date: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M" }} writes the date and the time in your own format.

Double brackets in the clipped text ([[, {{ and (() are escaped, so a clip does not create links or macros in your graph by accident.