How to link to a particular monograph?

I thought I knew how to do this, but I clearly don't!

I am working through an edition of Augustine's confessions. I just highlighted a passage, and added it to an open note. But if I click to the reference in the book, it goes to another translation of Augustine's confessions in my library! I don't think either is in my prioritized resources, and adding the desired translation to prioritized resources didn't change the behavior. Can this be done? Thanks!

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MJ. Smith

This is the old reference vs. selection issue - selection goes to the specific text/resource while reference goes to the highest priority edition. The default is reference.

Pater Noster

Sorry, I don't know what this is. I wasn't adding anchors, as I said, "I just highlighted a passage, and added it to an open note. " - meaning when IO highlighted it, a little note icon came uo, I clicked it - and it ent into my open Note file.

MJ. Smith

When you create a highlight, it automatically creates an anchor ... that is how the system "knows" where the highlight goes. The defult is reference which is what you are seeing. Are you on a Mac? I'm having trouble figuring out where you see the snippet you show.

Pater Noster

Yes, it's a Mac. As soon as I let up from completing the highlight of some text, that pops up.

Rosie Perera

If you right-click on the selected text, then choose "Selection" on the left side of the popup menu, you can then add the note to whatever notebook you want to add it to (just click "Add a note" to add it to the default notebook). The link in the note will then be to the specific selection in that resource, not to the reference.

Pater Noster

Thanks Rosie, that's not quite right on a Mac, but I figured it out from your post. From the snippet I showed in the third post, if you click the three dots, then the menu you show comes up. Then I can change it.

So my last question (I hope lol) - why does it take so many operations to have a text reference itself, instead of ;highlight-then click' to add the note as I do now? Is there any way I can change the reference text from the other book that I am not even reading? This is almost unusable it someone is highlighting a lot of notes through a text!