UI for links between notes

[maphew]

Building on #134, it would be great to have a Links Between Notes user interface

I love that linking between notes is possible but it's awkward. One needs to find the note in the doc tree and then copy>>paste it's markdown link. As the note trove grows this becomes a lengthier and lengthier exercise.

This workflow is loads better than nothing or copying full URLs, but the experience could be a lot smoother: I imagine a find-as-you-type search bar of Note Titles opening to [[ or a keyboard shortcut. (Optionally [[/, [[? to not interfere with [[I-want-to-type-without-that-thing-in-my-face]] UX)

Possibly a better implementation path that leverages an existing feature is a modified Go to Anything:

Ctrl-P >> if first 2 chars [[ insert [[ + {found anything target} + ]] instead of Going To

Operating system

• Windows
• macOS
• Linux

Application

• Desktop

I don't know what the equivalent mobile app UI control would be so I pulled them out of the list. However I'd think they would want a Links UI also. Feel free to add them back by editing this post.

[tessus]

@laurent22 I'm not sure, if you have seen this, but this seems like a good idea.

[tessus]

@laurent22 how easy or hard would that be to implement? if you have a few pointers, maybe I can start working on this.

[kleinfelter]

... or, when the user types [[note title here]] auto-replace it with note title here

[wmisha]

Dragging the note from the doc tree into the source pane also works for me. Using version 1.0.161.

However, this is hard to do between different notebooks as the list of notes is only visible for the notebook whose page you are on.

[stale]

Hey there, it looks like there has been no activity on this issue recently. Has the issue been fixed, or does it still require the community's attention? This issue may be closed if no further activity occurs. You may also label this issue as "backlog" and I will leave it open. Thank you for your contributions.

[dudelson]

Note: this feature is being actively discussed in this forum thread and appears to be under consideration for GSoC 2020. If that's the case, perhaps we could tag this issue as GSoC as well?