[image]Backlinks To use Joplin as a knowledge base it would be useful to have a “what links here”? This is an interesting question, and yes, I think that backlinks are important. Apps like NVAlt, Roam Research and Zettler use a double block to crosslink notes, perhaps hints at a consensus of the syntax. [image] [image] Think of it as syntax for the copy markdown link feature, when right-clicking a note. I think this is a pretty key feature that would allow to work towards a form of The Zettelkasten Method, which surfaced on hacker news this week. Short intro, thorough, indepth technical article

This Would Be great and the zettelkasten editor called obsidian .md was mad e by two people and wouldn’t be dfficult to implement so plwase do it

Great man this would be a deal breaker for me how do you implement this, i have no idea about what to do

@Kenishi, GIven you came up with this cool solution, I have a follow up question. How hard do you think it is to implement the same functionality in the Markdown editor? Is it at all possible?

For note linking, would it be intuitive enough to use the current Goto Anything feature and allow copying the note link from there. Then the process while editing a note would look like this: Ctrl-g search term Ctrl-c (would close the Goto Anything dialog) Ctrl-v I'm not sure if this is technically possible as I haven't reviewed the particular code, but it does use roughly the same number of keystrokes. Edit: This by itself would not allow linking on mobile since the Goto Anything feature does not exist on mobile (as far as I can tell).

Or just allow right click to have Copy Markdown Link option on Go To Anything. (Ohh. v1.2 ditched right menu altogether, there was some Copy menu in 1.0)

As far as I can tell, Drag&Drop only works inside a single folder while notes can be seen&selected…

I like to use keyboard without mouse to write notes, and I really like this idea! I think we also need to have keyboard shortcuts to go inside the note which the cursor current on, like go to definition. Then we need shortcuts to go back and go forward like ctrl+oand ctrl+i in vim.

Looking forward to seeing either version (ctrl-p/go-to-anything (in linux)) or [[; I'm considering migrating my notes from Zim to Joplin - I make extensive use of linking across notes in Zim, residing in multiple "sub notebooks", so drag & drop doesn't work and right-clicking to copy the link to the notes and then pasting looks really cumbersome (I have a few hundred internal links) So looking forward to a way to easily search a target note by title and insert a link to it all without using the mouse; even more awesome would be a two-step selection where first the note is searched by title and once selected, the anchors within the target note are listed so this way we can insert links to a specific section of the target note

I'm also very much looking forward to this, especially with a backlink feature. Is there a road mop somewhere where feature requests / plugins could be upvoted?

Syntax to link notes

Features

zen-quo 1 February 2021 09:12 57

these two plugins work great:

Quick Links Plugin
Automatic backlinks (with manual insert option)

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Syntax to link notes

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