How can I make links readable instead of a bunch of gobbledygook?

Jerry Foster

Sorry, I know I'm late to the party, but I just found out that the "Copy Location As" functionality has been moved to the Share > Copy link functionality. Ok so far, but I can't seem to duplicate old functionality as far as readability of the link is concerned. Look at the picture where I have examples of posting an entry from a personal book into a notebook.

The first link was done with the old "Copy Location As" method. As you can see, it automatically used the header for the resource link as the text for the link itself. Nice.

But the second link was done with the new Share > Copy link functionality. Which one is easier to read for you? :) How do I get the new functionality to use nice readable text for the link like it used to?

Maybe this info is out there, but after searching help and forums for 30 minutes I'm throwing in the towel. Thanks.

Francis

@Jerry Foster Faithlife used to have its own url shortener but afaik it is no longer the case. You could use an online free url shortener (e.g., tinyurl) if you really want to. However, for the second example you provided, you can (1) manually type the text you want to show (e.g., "Follow Your Heart" or whatever else), then (2) select that text and click on the chain looking icon (link) and paste in the link. This will make the selected text clickable and hyperlinked to that link. I use that routinely in notes.

In the illustration below, I selected the word "Lycurgus" and pasted the link like this:

As a result, the word I selected is now hyperlinked to that link:

You can select several words if you want.