Notebooks 11 with iCloud Drive Sync

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jul 7, 2021 at 10:47 AM

I did a very quick test and was disappointed. Links work, but the app doesn’t auto-generate the link while you type it. That is, you need to know the title of the note you want to link to.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
From the “What’s New” documentation for version 2.1 or the Mac app:
> >Wiki Links and Links in General
> >When trying to open a link’s target document and a document with
>the exact name does not exist, Notebooks applies smarter logic to find
>an alternative. Here is an example:
> >Given the link “notebooks://Projects/Documents/Note”,
>Notebooks now tries to resolve the link in this sequence:
> >Look for a document “Note” in the book “Projects
>⟩ Documents”
>Search for “Note” with any extension, like txt, md, jpg etc.
>Scan for any filename containing “note”
>Peek into editable documents and pick the first one which contains
>“note”
>Ask the user to create the document, provided the original link had an
>extension of txt, html or Markdown
>This strategy provides pretty much freedom and flexibility when creating
>references across Notebooks.