[Feature Request]: Create linked doc without changing the format of the text

[Thomas2419]

Description

Please let me make links in inline mode without ruining the format when they're to other affine docs using the create linked doc.

So when you create a linked doc it currently changes the format even when it's in inline mode. If we could have a go back without hitting the back arrow on the web platform your own. Which I suppose wouldn't be necessary if the linking method I stated worked since could use backlinks to traverse.

*** EDIT *** I've been using Affine in the browser the web app. The web app doesn't have a backward/forwards button, while the desktop application does, so that part of my statement only applies to web app version.

Use case

So explicitly, here's how I envision and currently use it. When I want to link in a doc, I create the new doc, copy the URL, and then manually link the text to my document. It's really just insult to injury that I can't create a linked doc without changing the format of the text. Like, the feature is there—it's just even inline mode doesn't let me leave it as a heading that's just blue to indicate a link.

The way I organize things I call infinite depth, which I'm sure there's a real name for. But say, for instance, in my case using this for work—you have a Business Development document. This is used as a strategic one-pager, with content and info on each heading and some minor details under each. So headings in this are like Webinars, which I want to keep as a heading with content under it—content unique to this page that explains everything on this page in the context of this page.

This lets you use each page as a contextualized view of a topic, but then lets you click from the Headings to see the details we have on for instance Webinars. Under Webinars, we have more Headings like Content Ideas, which under it has the details of our approach to coming up with webinar ideas. Then when you click the Webinar Ideas heading, we go to a Webinar Ideas doc, which lets us see all of the current ideas we have. Then each idea, if we get rid of it, is lined out. If we have a webinar set up, then the idea is a link to the details of the individual webinar—date, time, guests, host, etc.

This is, of course, currently doable, but I explicitly think being able to have a heading as an inline link from the Create Linked Doc would make this way faster and far less frustrating for me.

Anything else?

No response

Are you willing to submit a PR?

• Yes I'd like to help by submitting a PR!

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[hwangdev97]

I'm not sure if this is the effect you're aiming for. 👇

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[Thomas2419]

That except using the "Create Linked Doc" button. I am essentially doing that but I am building out our knowledge database currently. So I don't have the docs premade, so when I'm working on a doc, i create a new doc open it on the side get it's link then link it exactly like you're doing but creating new docs.
some pictures attatched:

Here's what I'm wanting the create linked doc being inline just highlighting blue:

Essentially the same way it look when you type in the link directly, and that way it's using the bi-directional links as well.