⚙️ Linkblog Posts on Bear
I did a lot of Daring Fireball style link blogging from 2020-2022. One thing I quickly realized yesterday as I set about porting over a few of those posts is that Bear didn't offer a way to assign a URL to the title portion of the post. If I added the link back as-is, I would end up with duplicate titles for each of these posts which looks ridiculous.
My original compromise was to replace the title link with the originating domain in parenthesis. I was mostly satisfied with this solution when I went to bed last night, but this morning I had a bit of further inspiration. Markdown actually has title attribute support for links. So I can use the following form in Bear:
#### [(so.axodys.com)](https://so.axodys.com/linkblog-posts-on-bear "{{ post_title }} ")
(so.axodys.com)
This works and is fine, but there's one final improvement that markdown allows that can keep the post less cluttered:
#### [(so.axodys.com)][1]
[1]: https://so.axodys.com/linkblog-posts-on-bear "{{ post_title }} "
(so.axodys.com)
This will be my approach going forward for my old and new linkblog posts in Bear. Full support would really only require a title_url metatag or similar that you could place in the post attributes section, but the existing linkblog feature request has been around for a while without much activity.