Can Joplin support links to local files in the notes? Here’s an article on the topic: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_don’t_work I am currently not having success in creating links to places in my local filesystem, let me know if there is some kind of trick to it.

[image] laurent: Someone tried it recently and it seems it already works. Simply put the full path to the file as the url, without file:// Just tried on macOS with latest Joplin version and it doesn't work either. I get the message: Unsupported link or message: /absolute/path/to/file.pdf

As far as I understand it, Joplin uses markdown-it to translate markdown into html. Markdown-it by itself allows only html links per default, see markdown-it 14.0.0 API documentation One can (as they suggest) overwrite the default behavior by md.validateLink = function () { return true; } there…

Hi there, ok, with the current version (1.0.115) a link to a local file also doesnt work for me. No matter if I paste the path directly or use “file://”. I know that local links might limit the usefulness of a notebook, but I think there are many cases in which a file might need to get modified fro…

It doesn’t work with 1.0.116 either. I believe this was unintentionally removed when fixing another issue. You should open a github issue that references to local files do not work anymore.

I’ve opened an issue on github: [image] Issue: links to local files don't work anymore opened by tessus on 2018-11-25 Operating system Windows macOS Linux Application Desktop Mobile (not sure, if this applies to mobile as well) Links to local files like [PDF file](file:/…

Hey there, I am new to Joplin (and note taking apps in general) and have just played around with this as well. For me, on a mac, linking to local folders works with ‘file://’ in front of the link, as long as the link does not contain white spaces. Clicking the link then opens the folder in Finder. …

In general it works yes, I frequently use local file links and I’ve never had any issues. This seems to be an issue that is related to you. Can you send an example of a link that doesn’t work?

Hey CalebJohn, when looking for the example, I found the problem: I had forgotten the 'file://'.... Now it works. So, thank you for the help :slight_smile: Since you are using this: Is there a good way to deal with empty spaces in file/folder names? And, on a related note: Is it possible to link t…

Hiya, TSeral, and welcome! When you right-click a note, you will see ‘Copy Markdown link’. Just click that, then paste the link into a note. [image] Not sure about the spaces in file paths, since I don’t use them (I want to avoid including stuff that will break when I sync it to other devices), b…

Hey zblesk, thank you for the help. I got both to work. When looking for links, I apparently only tried right-clicking notebooks, not actual notes, so I completely overlooked the existence of the ‘Copy Markdown Link’… Is it possible to give nice names for the links instead of the random identifiers…

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I just tried the +, and it seems to work for me as well…

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