What other /slash commands should we add?

[jessepollak]

Some ideas so far:

• Youtube
• Calendar
• Amazon

[bsiddiqui]

• any doc creation/storage app (Dropbox, Quip, Google Docs) for link sharing
• trello tasks
• github pull requests - something like /github comand/Wh would show a link to this issue (could also be used with PRs)
• foursquare/yelp

[dget]

Two I'd love, one that's simple and one that's not:

• Some way of screenshotting another tab. Almost every PR I put on Github (any many comments) need screenshots and it's fairly cumbersome to get them in
• /shrug. Gives you ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[jessepollak]

@dget OOOOOO I love both of these

[heewa]

How about /emoji cactus for 🌵, with the same names that github/slack/basically-everyone uses? I know you can get to the emoji from menu Edit -> Emoji & Symbols, but as slack & github show, it's a much better experience to tab-complete a word than scroll through pages of icons.

[russdogg]

Maybe something like: /map -> a geo-location feature that snaps a screenshot map plus google map link. Like when you need to quickly send someone your location.

I have an IFTTT recipe that does this.

edit: looks like google maps has an API call for this, just requires long and lat and an API key
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/static-maps/intro

[btamayo]

👍 for /emoji

Or link to Google search results for a specific term. e.g. "Great, look who's winning the primary: 2016 Primary"

[russdogg]

For /emoji , might have to add a polyfill for default emoji support for Chrome on Windows... Unless it's been updated more recently.

[jessepollak]

Love the Google Maps idea and /emoji is the next one I'm working on!

[jessepollak]

Just released an update (v0.0.14) that adds /emoji — it's not perfect, but it works. If anyone is around this weekend and wants to learn how to add a command, I'd be happy to help!

[dsanch3z]

@jessepollak Maybe a way to add predefined templates for emails?

Loved the extension BTW

[ishu3101]

@russdogg Can you share your IFTTT Recipe for Google Maps?

[ishu3101]

• Google Search - Search the web with Google
• Google Translate - Translate text using Google Translate
• Wikipedia - Search for articles on Wikipedia
• Imgur - Search for images on Imgur
• Twitter - Search tweets, @mentions and hashtags on Twitter

[chrishannah]

I've started working on the Wikipedia command! I've forked it here - https://github.com/cryptixdevelopment/command

The API is strange and returns three different arrays, each for the titles, excerpts, and urls. But I've got that converting to a more suitable array of clear objects.

It's "working" at the minute, just the results aren't formatted very well yet.

[chrishannah]

I think another good command would be to be able to quickly search on the App Store

[DanielHabib]

quickly pull up the current stock information,
/stock <Search Stock>

[chrishannah]

I got bored and also added in an App Store command - https://github.com/cryptixdevelopment/command

It works fine, except the pagination isn't perfect.

[jessepollak]

@cryptixdevelopment so awesome! Do you want to submit a PR? Would love to take a look and merge them in :D

[chrishannah]

@jessepollak Yeah sure, the Wiki command still needs work but at least the functionality is there.

[bgiesing]

@jessepollak I think these could be added:

• /googleplay
  • Android Apps OR add it to @cryptixdevelopment's command to make a /apps command that searches both (and possibly Windows 10, Ubuntu, etc. app stores)
• /search
  • Give a link to a search engine (your prefered could be set in a Settings page)
• /lmgtfy
  • http://lmgtfy.com/?q=let+me+google+that+for+you
• /deviantart
  • Share images from DeviantArt
• /apkmirror
  • Search APK Mirror for Staged Rollout and Beta Android APKs
• /producthunt
• /xda
  • Search XDA-Developers

[scrussell24]

Awesome extension! Just thought about something similar yesterday and found this.

Have you thought about allowing custom commands? I'm thinking this could be very useful as a productivity tool in a work environment but the commands would need to be very customized and connect to internal services.

Also, the ability to "pipe" commands together would be boss. Something like "/youtube searchparam | bitly".

[ishu3101]

Custom Commands are already supported. See the CONTRIBUTING.md file here: https://github.com/jessepollak/command/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md to learn how to create one.

You can also see the source code of existing command such as /emoji under src/content/commands folder

[bgiesing]

@ishu3101 I think @scrussell24 means a easy way for users to make them with a Settings UI (so you could add macro slashes (/omw=on my way) like Slash Keyboard does on mobile). That's for devs to implement API style commands (like the YouTube API for video search for instance)

[abishekrsrikaanth]

/stackoverflow - Reference a Stackoverflow Page

/github-repo - Reference to a Github Repo