wiki article: hyperlinking to a Word doc inside of Notes

added a new article to the Note wiki page which tells you how to link to Word docs or PDFs or other documents on your computer. i was working on a note file today and discovered that i did not know how to link to a PDF doc inside of L4 notes. So i checked the wiki Note page and discovered that i had no info on how to do this. After some trial & error i figured out how to do this and decided to document this in the wiki.

Creating hyperlinks to documents in your computer

EDIT: too bad that drag & drop to the hyperlink box doesn't work Sad

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steve clark

also added an article telling how to add URLs as hyperlinks to your note files.

Creating hyperlinks to URLs

fgh

Nice job! Then I guess we can remove "PDF's" from the Uservoice "allow all links - to other notes, PDF's mp3's, PowerPoint's, web, mind maps, sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists" -- and maybe some of the others as well?

The question is if it should be moved to the list of Mac/PC differences instead. I haven't quite made it work on Mac yet. I don't get the quotes, which is a plus, but I also don't get the popup. I get a link, and it opens Finder with the right document marked, but it doesn't open the document itself.

Aah! Now you'll be envious. I just saw your edit, and tried: dragging and dropping works perfectly in Mac! But it still only opens Finder and not the document.

No, I have to take that back. rtf's can be dragged, but not pdf's or doc's. And only rtf's open Finder; pdf's and doc's create what look like links, but they don't actually do anything. Anyone else who can figure this out, or is it a work in progress?

EDIT: URL's worked fine. They can't be dragged, and I don't get the popup, but a single click on the link opened the correct webpage.

EDIT: I figured out the dragging. Everything can be dragged; you just have to click in the hyperlink box before you attempt it.

steve clark

Then I guess we can remove "PDF's" from the Uservoice "allow all links - to other notes, PDF's mp3's, PowerPoint's, web, mind maps, sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists" -- and maybe some of the others as well?

i think many of these other features are still needed (e.g. other notes; to specific sub notes within a note file). Also i would hope that Logos adds drag & drop to the hyperlink box for us.

The question is if it should be moved to the list of Mac/PC differences instead. I haven't quite made it work on Mac yet. I don't get the quotes, which is a plus, but I also don't get the popup. I get a link, and it opens Finder with the right document marked, but it doesn't open the document itself.

KS4J might want to add a difference section in the difference wiki page. i used the Shortcut method in getting the whole path/filename for users not familiar with getting the full path. i use Notepad and build the full path/filename and then copy & paste it into the hyperlink box. i found that L4 has problems when trying to paste the filename to the end of the path in the hyperlink box.

No, I have to take that back. rtf's can be dragged, but not pdf's or doc's. And only rtf's open Finder; pdf's and doc's create what look like links, but they don't actually do anything. Anyone else who can figure this out, or is it a work in progress?

Windows associates file types to which program opens them. e.g. if i double click on a Word doc it will open MS Word and load that file. Since i don't have a Mac i don't know how its OS handles this. Hopefully someone else here on the forum will be able to answer your question on this.

EDIT: I figured out the dragging. Everything can be dragged; you just have to click in the hyperlink box before you attempt it.

unfortunately this doesn't work in Vista for me [:(]

Hope that you find the answer to linking to documents for the Mac!

MJ. Smith

Then I guess we can remove "PDF's" from the Uservoice "allow all links - to other notes, PDF's mp3's, PowerPoint's, web, mind maps, sentence diagrams, vocabulary lists" -- and maybe some of the others as well?

I had considered omitting it but left it in because some of the other requests implied it with additional functionality - such as having the attachment copy like it was a footnote. Other issues include indexing of the content of attachments. So from my perspective "links" runs the gambit from what we have now to some level of integration.

steve clark

i did get PowerPoint, MP3s, & Videos to hyperlink and open correctly in notes

i used the same method as adding a Word doc (full path & filename).

fgh

Kind of funny that I can drag all sorts of links from Finder and Safari, but not ones from inside Logos, which, obviously, is what I usually need... Though I did just figure out that I can drag the text in the reference box into the note itself if I should want to. I just can't drag the URL into the hyperlink box. (And it still doesn't link automatically on Mac.)

Also kind of funny that you can do part of what you want, and I can do part of what I want, but it's totally different parts... So much for parity! [:D]

As for pdf's and doc's, they work like rtf's. The reason I couldn't make them work at first, was that I tried with ones in the download folder, which is the only place I have doc's, and virtually the only place I have pdf's. Obviously they have to be in a 'real' folder to link properly. So now I've gotten to the point where everything is draggable, and everything creates a proper link to the right object in Finder. They just don't open the documents. And there aren't any popups, which means you can't see beforehand what you're about to open, and you can't click on the link to just edit the text.

We'll see if someone comes up with something in here. Otherwise I'll post something in the Mac forum tomorrow.

Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)

We'll see if someone comes up with something in here. Otherwise I'll post something in the Mac forum tomorrow.

Wondering if forum automatic hyperlinking of scripture in notes describes similar Notes issue(s) on Mac ?

Mac and PC User Interface Differences page has Feature Parity section.

Keep Smiling [:)]