Bi-directional linking

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黄钰涵

• June 01, 2020 07:10
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Hi workflowy:

I am so fond of your application!

I wonder may you develop a function named bi-directional link, just like roam research.Users use'[[]]'to link a bullet to another one.

Looking forward to your reply~

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  Daniel Wadsworth

  • June 01, 2020 11:11

  They've confirmed they're working on it after Boards are completed.

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • June 01, 2020 17:41

  We may be releasing a working model this week via an experimental feature flag in your Settings menu. If not this week... next week is a super high possibility :-) 

   

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  Daniel Wadsworth

  • June 02, 2020 02:23

  You guys are slaying it right now.

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  Alfred Peters

  • June 02, 2020 03:47

  So impossibly, incredibly excited for this.

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  David A Coales

  • June 02, 2020 10:36
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  Wow that would be fantastic.  I can't wait.  I shall be checking twitter and this thread daily :-)  Along with the boards and side bar features this will have transformed my use of WorkFlowy.  Fantastic work.

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  Brohannes

  • June 03, 2020 01:47

  Also very excited. 😊

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  Rodolfo Lopez

  • June 11, 2020 13:36

  Can't wait to try it out. Since trying out bi-directional linking in other apps I've been hoping workflowy would add it as well. Once you start using it - it becomes hard to get used to not having it available.

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  David A Coales

  • June 11, 2020 14:58

  It's been clarified that bi-directional linking isn't the thing they are about to release.  What they are close to releasing is transclusion.

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  Piyush Kansal

  • June 20, 2020 07:49

  Please allow linking within workflowy also. 
  Suppose I wish to link a word with a entire node/bullet (Just like in onenote)
  Thanks

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  Frank (Workflowy Support)

  • June 20, 2020 11:21

  Hi Piyush,

  In a week or two we'll come out with a link editor popup box, which will make things more simple. This will enable you to grab a link to another outline and edit the link to make it into a word/ phrase. Eventually we're going to make this dynamic easier to access by allowing to type inline and have a popup box showing options of where to link to. 

  Having said that, this is different to bi-directional linking, which we are also going to be building in due course. Everything that is being asked in this thread is under way :-)

   

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  Ganesh Iyer

  • July 03, 2020 12:23

  Incredibly excited about this feature!

  I keep 'flirting' with Roam for two features right now - 1) Bi-directional linking and 2) Shift-click to open another pane. 

  Other than that, I am happy about Workflowy because you have not feature-bloated your app. 

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  Boudewijn Bertsch

  • July 23, 2020 21:55

  Indeed, a full friction-free bidirectional linking implementation will be great. The Boards implementation makes it also possible to write chapters of a book or sections of an article comprising of small thought-notes. There is a web app called Speare that does this very neatly see https://www.speare.com What is not possible there is bidirectional linking, although they are also working on it. So I look forward to the implementation. It cannot come soon enough for me.

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  Derek Clark

  • September 07, 2020 22:26

  Can't wait to see bi-directional linking on Workflowy!

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  Thomas Jahn

  • September 25, 2020 19:07

  Same here! I would love to use bi-directional linking in Workflowy, since this would improve noting / thinking / writing and still keep Workflowy as clean as we all love it.  

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  Alexey Smolianinov

  • December 08, 2020 12:29

  Yeah, that would be very valuable

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  Thomas Chen

  • February 28, 2021 00:58

  Really enjoying the backlinks so far! Would love the option to create a new node on the fly when creating a backlink to a note that doesn’t yet exist.

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  ICT World Policy P M

  • February 28, 2021 08:32

  Bi-directional linking was 'imminent' over a year ago. I do not believe it will happen.

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  Daniel Wadsworth

  • February 28, 2021 09:31

  Backlinks have been on for about a month. Turn them on in settings.

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  Sam G

  • March 01, 2021 15:41

  Only just noticed this in the settings!! Really cool. I like the way it uses the pre-existing mirrors UX.

  A great next step would be some kind of unreferenced links feature, if it can be done simply and cleanly.

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