How to link a note to another note?

Clark Wilson
Clark Wilson Member Posts: 5
edited November 20 in English Forum

How to link a note to another note? This may be very easy to do but I can't figure out how to do it, despite much head scratching and help reading.

The goal is that I have two existing notes, A and B. I would like to create a clickable link in note A that would open note B.

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle Member, MVP Posts: 32,426 ✭✭✭

    The goal is that I have two existing notes, A and B. I would like to create a clickable link in note A that would open note B.

    To the best of my knowledge that is not currently possible

  • J. Remington Bowling
    J. Remington Bowling Member Posts: 630

    It's possible. 

    Suppose you want a hyper-link text in A to point to B. Just go to B and click the uppermost overflow menu icon.

    Select "Copy Location As: URL..."

    Then paste that in as a hyperlink for whatever text you want in A linking to B.

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  • Clark Wilson
    Clark Wilson Member Posts: 5

    I thought I had tried that approach without success. My (apparently incorrect) recollection is that I ended up with the link definition in the note but it wasn't clickable. Ah, well, I'm able to do it now. Thanks for your help!

    I also posted in the Logos Notes group. Got a slightly more detailed answer there: https://faithlife.com/posts/2684819

    In that group I also posted the reason I'm researching this -- I'm doing an informal proof-of-concept for implementing Zettelkasten using Logos Notes. https://faithlife.com/posts/2693300 Zettelkasten is a workflow with some info structures underneath it. https://zettelkasten.de/ is one place for info.

    I guess any follow-up posts should be over in the group.

  • Willy Arnold
    Willy Arnold Member Posts: 97

    I had a very similar question so I guess I will post it here.  I do this all the time, except I use L4 instead of URL.  Also, after you select your method once, you can use ctrl+alt+c every time afterwards.  But anyway, the problem is that it copies a bunch of unnecessary information: 

    logos4:NotesTool;EditNoteId=9fc0554ce4944b02a7d52f0b07b4c57d;IsEditorFullSize=true;IsSidebarExpanded=false;IsTrashExpanded=false; SearchQuery=kings_israel_judah;ShowFullAnchorText=true;Sort=modifiedDesc;ViewMode=full

    So what I do is that I first paste this into notepad and then only copy up to the second semicolon (logos4:NotesTool;EditNoteId=9fc0554ce4944b02a7d52f0b07b4c57d) and then use this for the link. I do this every time I link a note to another note, which is quite often.  So I was wondering if there was a way to only copy the relevant information without the intermediate step?

    Thanks

  • J. Remington Bowling
    J. Remington Bowling Member Posts: 630

    If all of that information is embedded and hidden in a hyperlink (like this), why does it matter from the user's perspective?

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  • Willy Arnold
    Willy Arnold Member Posts: 97

    Maybe at the end of the day it doesn't matter and I'm just being OCD.  Or maybe all of those little flags will affect how a note is opened when you click on it.  Or maybe I just want all of my notes to conform to some normal "standard" and not whatever happened to be going on when I copied the link (for instance I just happened to be searching on "kings Israel Judah" and I don't want that permanently embedded in the link). Either way it just does not seem to be the "correct" way to link a note to another note and I would like to find a way to disable it if possible. 

    :)

  • Oh my goodness I just wanted to say THANK YOU for this!!! This is going to be so much better than the way I was doing it!!!