A year ago, I wrote about how I quickly grab browser links and site links directly from Emacs. My solution leverages applescript so it’s usable only on OS X. Since I do all my writing on OS X, I’ve never bothered to figure out how to make it work in other environments.
Sacha to the rescue. She’s implemented something similar by using org-protocol. Her solution is for the Windows platform but should work, mutatis mutandis, for other platforms. If you’d like to do something along the lines that I did, Chua’s post may be a good jumping off place. I keep wanting to figure out org-protocol myself but every time I try, I get bogged down. Perhaps Chua’s post will help me finally figure it all out.