Backlink behaviors

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Hey guys!

I am an absolute newbie to Drafts with no experience in coding. So I hope to ask something about backlinks here and decide whether to keep subscribing to Drafts.

Other functions are extremely useful to me and I love the app. But the fly in the ointment is the backlink system. I expect a bit more on the Wiki-style link. Currently, it only allows to create link with a new page, which means when I am creating this link in one draft, a new draft has to be created, my current draft will then show [[new draft title]], and the new draft will show < [[original draft]]. Then you can go back and forth in both drafts.

Is there any way to link two existing drafts? I need something like showing an [[existing draft title]] on my current draft and at the same time < [[original draft]] on my linked existing draft, so that I can go back and forth.

I would be very grateful if someone can help me with this function that I desperately need. Cheers!!

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It sounds like you are describing adding a link to a draft and a back link to that linked draft.

I created several linking actions in the ThoughtAsylum - Management action group.

The actions that include “+BL” add back links to the destination draft. There are several ways to link and so several of these actions.

Another action in that section of the action group is TAD-Load a Linked Draft. This generates a list of back links on the fly based on the links it finds to the current draft. Again, this looks at a variety of ways such a link could be specified and tries to account for all of them.

Hopefully, this is the sort of thing that you are looking for.

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Thanks mate!! it works perfectly!!

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Hi Jack,
hope you find that helpful.

Feel free to ask for any support.
Not to use the Pro option would limit your Drafts usage and development in my opinion.

Cheers
Felix