Request for assistance with linking sentences in a single note

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Hello,
I am using a single note for summarising lectures.
The summary contains multiple lectures and I want to be able to press a sentence in one lecture, and having the program send my cursor to a specific different sentence from a different lecture on the same note.

For example:
Source marked with double $.
Destination marked with double $$.

Lecture 1:
Blah blah definition of $Classic Conditioning$:
Classic conditioning is…

Lecture 4:
Brain area blah blah
$$Classic Conditioning$$ plays an important role in this area aswell.

Is there such an option already existing?
Tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything.

Thank you!

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Currently, your choice are to link to headings or link to blocks.

None of them are great. The first breaks if you change the heading text (which I wordsmith all the time). The second is more stable (though still fragile – I think it might break if you rename the file?? not sure), but the problem is the definition of a “block” makes it difficult to express more than a paragraph. You can hack in capacity to reference multi-paragraph blocks by making everything a list item or a task item .

- [ ] Classic conditioning blah ^123linkid
    - [ ] blah blah blah blah
      blah blah blah

      blah blah blah

This still is fragile as I said, and definitely adds some ugly syntactical visual noise. But it does allow you to reference arbitrary complex blocks.

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Thanks but that’s not really what I’m looking for.
I want the screen to go up the file or down the file to where the destination is, being able to remind myself of related concepts from previous chapters.

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You’ve only got those four kind of links:

  • note links
  • header links
  • block links
  • task links, through task queries

And then I’m not counting indirect links through searches.

So if neither of those meet your criteria, you’re fresh out of luck until someone makes a plugin or extension to markdown. And I don’t that’s likely to happen anytime soonish.

Based on your use case I’d look into block links, as they’ll be able to send you to the correct block/paragraph.

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