Link Optimization: If Note's Ancestry Already Contain [[Bidirectional/Wikilink]], Remove [[Bidirectional/Wikilink]] Brackets

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Link Optimization: If Note's Ancestry Already Contain [[Bidirectional/Wikilink]], Remove [[Bidirectional/Wikilink]] Brackets #708

Open manunamz opened 3 years ago

manunamz commented 3 years ago

Please Select if your Request is Either something new or an Enhancement

[ ] Enhancement of an existing Feature.
[x] Request of a new feature.

Please select the area your request applys to. (Multiple selections are Possible)

[ ] Onboard. Initial vault setup and import/export pods
[ ] Create. Note creation, lookup, snippets and templates
[ ] Retrieve. Backlinks, references, graph view
[x] Structure. Refactoring, multi-vault and schemas
[ ] Publish. Sharing your repo with the world
[ ] Misc (Choose this if your not sure)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I have found sometimes I will [[link]] to notes that already exist in the current note's ancestry, which seems a little redundant...

Describe the solution you'd like

I'm not even sure what the best solution would be, but a solution would be to (optionally) have [[wikilinks]] brackets automatically removed if the note already exists in the note's ancestry. (There could be configs to toggle this or specify which subtrees to apply this feature to, etc.)

Additional context

A feature that should probably be added before this is to be able to jump to any note in the current note's ancestry (from say a breadcrumb at the top of the note).

kpathakota commented 3 years ago

Yeah, this is pretty clear. I think a breadcrumb to allow for easy ancestral jumping is a great idea!

aleksey-rowan commented 2 years ago

Hey, @manunamz,

A feature that should probably be added before this is to be able to jump to any note in the current note's ancestry (from say a breadcrumb at the top of the note).

You can move up the hierarchy with Ctrl + Shift + Up arrow and you can move sort of down to the original note using Alt + Left arrow (which goes back in history).

I have found sometimes I will [[link]] to notes that already exist in the current note's ancestry, which seems a little redundant...

I'm curious, why do you say it's redundant? Is there a specific use case?

I use the bullet journal method and all my daily notes yyyy.mm.dd have a link pointing to the current month's note yyyy.mm which would fall under your definition. I can't think of other examples of the top of my head, but simply wondering what you've been finding yourself linking to.