Ideas for note links / backlinks

[eode]

This is my ideal for note links, but could stand as a general area for discussion regarding note links.

• Linking should be easy
• Linking should be unintrusive
• Linking should be trackable

Towards that end, these are my thoughts:

• Requirements (for my needs)
  • Any note title typed exactly becomes linked to that note in a 'greedy' fashion -- I.e., the longest note title that matches is the match.
  • Any note that is linked to has a list of back-links
  • Link renaming -- if a note title is renamed, there's an option to automatically rename all links.
• Niceties
  • Capitalization is ignored
  • Perhaps a configuration option "Link to Note Titles" that disables linking if unchecked
  • Any link can be long-pressed to be "unlinked" (unstyled, doesn't get followed) (in reality, still tracked, but ignored)
  • A "make links" checkbox after the note title - causes it to default to 'unlinked'.

On the back-end, this can be done quite a few ways -- either as embedded but hidden text, or as a separate "Note -- Links", "Note 2 -- Links" documents. One simple way would be to have tags embedded in the notes -- but they would have to be parsed for actually viewing the note. I'm not sure how your underlying structure works.

[moughxyz]

Thanks for the feedback! Will keep these ideas in mind as we explore linking in the future.

[eode]

Awesome. You really have a great app, and your cross-platform support is amazing.

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Thanks for the feedback! Will keep these ideas in mind as we explore linking in the future.

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[roaet]

I would love note linking

[pmagdon]

As an evernote user trying to switch to a company which values privacy I just signed up for the extended version of the standard notes app. However, shortly after importing some of my notes I realized that there is no functionality for linking notes. Compared to the old paper notes I used this was one of the major advantages of having digital notebooks. Thus, I strongly support the idea of implementing at least a basic function to link notes.

[varian93]

Internal links could be converted to standard markdown links on the fly to help maintain longevity.

[JaspalSuri]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I can't promise anything, but I've made I will record it in a way that is easier for the developers to reference (and I'm not saying that Mo didn't already do that; our toolset is changing as our team grows).

[virtuallyvlad]

There's a larger conversation on this at https://github.com/standardnotes/forum/issues/324

[effieeee]

As mentioned, larger conversation is in here: https://github.com/standardnotes/forum/issues/324