What I’m trying to do
As I write my diary notes, there are multiple parts that I want a copy of in another note called Importang information. I want to be able to select a section in my main note, creat a copy of it on another note, and link the copied version to my orginal one.
Things I have tried
Ive already tried internal links but they have a really overwhelming setup, and I need to set it up from the new note, not my main note. And it’s incredibly overwhelming on phone. I also used the Note refactor, but It’s basically doing reverse of what I need. It transfers my selection to the Important information note but it creates the link inside the orginal text which is exactly the opposite placement that I need.
There are few different type of links:
- Links to entire notes
[[SomeNote]]
- Links to a heading/section of a note
[[SomeNote#Heading]]
- Links to a block of a note
[[SomeNote#^blockid]]
- (Not native: Implicit links using task queries from Dataview )
So there is no link directly to a smaller section within a note. If you want to have a piece of text referenced in multiple places, and somehow link to it, you do need to either have that text be a separate section, or a distinct block, or a note of itself.
In either case, you can use embeds to include that piece of text wherever you want. However, you can only edit that text where it’s defined, or through a pop up preview of that text.
Note refactor is aiding to do this by creating a new note with the important information, and it inserts a link which you can turn into an embed by prepending the link with !, so it becomes ![[SomeNote]] or similar.
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In such cases, I utilize the block link feature mentioned above. After installing the ‘Copy block link’ plugin, I’ve assigned ‘Copy link to current block or heading’ to a shortcut key and command (in my case, I use CTRL + SHIFT + C) for quick attachment on both PC and mobile.
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