[Feature] Share Menu to open in Octal and/or Clipboard Detection of HN Link

[Arvind-Srinivasan]

Thank you for the great app! One minor area of improvement is that I open get HN links for posts or comments sent to me which open in Safari. There doesn't seem to be a directly take those links into Octal.

The title suggests two options to improve this workflow based on Comet (a Reddit app), as shown in the two screenshots. A share menu option would let me directly take the link to a post/comment into the app.

Alternatively (and this is less preferred) is the option that app has to read your clipboard and jump to the link.

Hope to see one of these features in the app!

[dangwu]

What am I looking at in the first screenshot?

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[Arvind-Srinivasan]

Image of the share menu item that comet has to open a Reddit link in it

[dangwu]

How does that work? You’re sharing from Comet?

You can currently share from HN web to Octal to view it in Octal.

The clipboard detection is a good idea btw!

[Arvind-Srinivasan]

So it shows up in the share menu in different contexts, and works from all of them (from within the Safari app to just from long pressing a link):

[Arvind-Srinivasan]

Should I see an option for Octal here? I don't see the option you mention to share from HN Web:

[dangwu]

That looks like the Safari share menu? Not Comet share menu as you said before

[Arvind-Srinivasan]

That looks like the Safari share menu? Not Comet share menu as you said before

I said it was a comet item in a share menu (and it's not just Safari but that's the example above)? I never said it was the Comet share menu...

I mean regardless having some sort of "open in" support for Octal would be a nice feature. If it already exists then it seems bugged because I don't have the option to enable it.