Support for wiki style links as used in Notational Velocity derivatives #1765

Open jonmoore1 opened 6 years ago

At the moment the the only way to create local links to notes in the same folder is to use GitLab style linking, which mirrors Markdown link style as follows:

[LinkTitle] (./DocumentName)

And the document name can be utilised minus the (.md) file extension. This is good for many use cases but lacks the simplicity of Notational Velocity style linking (which mirrors the system popularised by personal wiki apps). The link style here works as follows:

[[DocumentName]]

Much like with the existing local link scheme, the file extension isn't required (which aids readability). If you happen to store your text files in multiple local folders you can use POSIX style / notation to direct to the location of the note (but this does of course kill readability and add unnecessary complexity to a plain text note taking system). The other main benefit of the [[ ]] double bracket notation is that the plain text notes are totally portable, as they don't rely of the fragility of file paths across multiple platforms (and random folder structure changes over time).

I work across macOS, Linux and Windows, and Typora has proven to fill a massive gap on both Windows and Linux with regard to plain text 'note taking/document drafting'. For many years on macOS I've relied upon 1st, 'nvALT' and more lately 'The Archive' (both of which are based on Notational Velocity) for inter-linked note taking. Typora allows me to continue to access my notes on Linux and Windows and I get to benefit from the live rendering of my Markdown formatted notes as a much appreciated added extra. Unfortunately none of the wiki style links between local notes function when using Typora.

I'm not suggesting a change from the current system of Markdown based local linking, just the addition of the wiki style link notation to support it. Much like myself, there's a huge audience of macOS users that are either transitioning to Linux/Windows or put in a situation where work/life means they're forced to work with multiple OS's; and many again have come to rely on Notational Velocity based apps for Markdown based note taking. Wiki style local linking, would be a welcome attraction to the delights of Typora for those very same macOS nomads, looking for a suitable Markdown app to call home on Linux & Windows. :)

Any news on that topic?

+1 Yes, please. :)

+1

This would be a killer feature and would quietly bring Obsidian into total question. Typora is a much better editor with much better export (pdf, word etc.)

If the wikilinks worked at the root folder lever, this would be an excellent feature.

+50 This is becoming a dealbreaker for me. I'm using Obsidian + 1Writer (iOS) which support Wiki Links. And Wiki Links are just more readable and useful.

Obsidian is too clunky for my daily note-taking. Typora is better for that. But now I'm not able to use it because I'll never be able to go back to GitLab-style links.

Would appreciate a response from the Typora developers on this. I think it's clear that a major chunk of users want this, right?

This is the one reason why I switched back to iA Writer.

I'm with @simonesilvestroni - I mainly use iA writer for most of my writing, but there are many other areas where Typora is excellent (like writing documentation). It would be fantastic if iA writer and Typora (and others) could treat internal links the same way. But for now I am often forced back to iA for everything.

I imagine a lot of people here have a vault of text files using the [[link]] format. This must be the number one feature-request :)

I'm with @simonesilvestroni - I mainly use iA writer for most of my writing, but there are many other areas where Typora is excellent (like writing documentation). It would be fantastic if iA writer and Typora (and others) could treat internal links the same way. But for now I am often forced back to iA for everything.

I imagine a lot of people here have a vault of text files using the [[link]] format. This must be the number one feature-request :)

I agree!

@myrvang definitely — I keep Typora at hands because it's vastly superior (in my opinion) on a number of things: tables among others. I have both Typora and iA Writer integrated with Sublime Text, and it works very well... I wish I could do the same with iA Writer and Typora, where it'd be possible to open the same document in the other editor, and vice versa.

This issue is more than 5 years old now and has not been resolved nor commented by the developers. You might want to use your energy for MarkText (it is awesome, try it out, the first editor I am happy with since Typora) to convince the dev team to implement it or a plugin for it (https://github.com/marktext/marktext/issues/2329#issuecomment-1801289278).

This issue is more than 5 years old now and has not been resolved nor commented by the developers. You might want to use your energy for MarkText (it is awesome, try it out, the first editor I am happy with since Typora) to convince the dev team to implement it or a plugin for it (marktext/marktext#2329 (comment)).

MarkText has many small annoyances. I fixed some of them but my PR was rejected.

@bn-l As far as I see, your PR is still open and not rejected and someone commented that they do not want to add the logo. So it is up to you to change your PR and exclude the logo.

Also, better some small annoyances than obvious bugs that are open since more than 5 years: https://github.com/typora/typora-issues/issues/1638

I am not saying MarkText has no bugs, but at least someone is working on it.

This is a rather simple feature, that would make Typora a good Obsidian competitor as a Personal Knowledge Management tool.

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Support for wiki style links as used in Notational Velocity derivatives #1765