Making an external link to a Devon Think 3 database

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Hello,

The more I find out about Osidian, the more curious I become. But, I have really no background to be asking this question.

I have a lot of information stored in Devonthink 3.

From the Devonthink file menu, I got an external link to a database in devonthink. It looks like this:
0DB99904-3730-4FD7-A3E0-D40150BD60A

I understand that the syntax to make the link is:
[Link text goes here](x-devonthink-item://lotsofletters)

I am not sure how I would use this.

I tried
My database name

A pop up came up copy URL. I am not sure what I should do. Devonthink is on my computer.

This is not a very important issue, but I am trying to understand how things are setup.

Thank You
EllenMad

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I use x-devonthink-item:// links all the time. It’s not clear from your post how you’re formatting “my database name”—can you paste what you used for that fenced in backticks (i.e., like code)?

A working link would look like this:
[Some DEVONthink group or record](x-devonthink-item://AAC1933E-AE21-4B80-828A-6B4C3FCE66D0)
Such that if I write it without code fencing…
Some DEVONthink group or record
I can click that from anywhere and jump to a record in my inbox. (Edit: except for here, apparently; I suppose Discourse doesn’t allow non-HTTPS links…)

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Hi,
I am a stranger to markdown file and code language. I am not sure if I am actually talking about the tag custom css. Probably not.

@ave54 else said [pretty filename](<file:///path to file with spaces.extension>) which will create a clickable link in preview titled “pretty filename”.

I really want to go to a specific note in Devonthink 3. What I am giving you is a link to the database. I am not sure how I would use the link to go to the database.

This is a real example that does nothing. Probably I have included some wrong characters.
[Daphne indica](file:///./rtf/2/Daphne indica.rtf)

I found the path by clicking on the information icon.

I would appreciate any help.
Thank you
EllenMad

moderator note: I combined the two threads you created on this issue. -Ryan

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Sorry to be so late in replying. Thank you for your reply.

Not sure what “code fencing” is. I don’t know much about code.
For example, the title of the note is “Zinc lecture mangia” The path is “/rtf/e/Zinc lecture mangia.rtf” I go to the DT3 Menu and click on copy link. I get this: x-devonthink-item://312F8596-2F75-46E9-9A50-3AA15E7D5826

I was assuming that the name of the file was what you call a DEVONthink group or record.

Zinc lecture mangia

I past the above into a Obsidian file. Clicking on it, I expect to be taken to that file in DT3. Nothing happens.

I tried putting ``` and ` (Maybe that is code fencing) around the above link to DT3, but nothing happens.

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That is code fencing. It prevents the markdown parser from rendering the text, showing instead the raw text you’re using.

Could you do that here, so that I can see what your links look like before they are rendered? E.g.,

`write your link like this`
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This is the fenced in code that I think should work but does not work.

[Zinc lecture mangia] (x-devonthink-item://312F8596-2F75-46E9-9A50-3AA15E7D5826)

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Yes, that shows the problem. There is a space between the ] and the (.

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Thank you. I cannot see the space. I should make a template to avoid this problem. Again, I appreciate you attention.
Ellen Madono

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