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"hyper-linking" within and between various apps and docs?
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Hello,
I haven't been following the discussions but wanted to post a quick question about a possibility...
A valuable feature for me in any OS would be the ability to create 'links' between various files, from within those files. By this I mean that, as an example, in iCal I could create a link to an email message, or a photo image, or whatever. Sort of an 'inter-documental system-wide selective hyper-linking'. :-)
Has anything like ever been discussed or is it in the works? I'm sure it has... ...
Thanks,
Kent M
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Maybe. Is that the object (pardon the play on words) of openDoc? I'm a designer, not a programmer so I usually don't really understand the codified wording of the taglines that advertise and describe these projects. But I assume that this app will let developers do what I was asking about, since you've pointed it out directly. Thanks for the link.
Is anyone pursuing this kind of option for their apps? Do people generally think it would be a useful feature, or just confusing? It's all in how is implemented of course, but...?
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Well app kind of already do this. if you have address book load birthdays in to your ical you can see a link to the address book entry under url. the url is meaningless but still it's a link so the means is there its just not user friendly.
http://www.linkbackproject.org/ not quite what you want but it's my understanding that you can paste a chunk from say omnigraffle to nisus writer and close both. when you make changes to the omnigraffle file you copied from the changes are made in nisus writer.
I think both are steps to what you want to do.
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fluid like water.
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Originally Posted by jyunderwood
http://www.linkbackproject.org/ not quite what you want but it's my understanding that you can paste a chunk from say omnigraffle to nisus writer and close both. when you make changes to the omnigraffle file you copied from the changes are made in nisus writer.
I think both are steps to what you want to do.
NeXTStep had a feature like this called Paste & Link.
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Mac had Publish and Subscribe.
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Kind of curious if this is possible from a programming stand point.
A services-based universal document bookmarking system...
Something that would allow the user to place a bookmark (maybe even a notation) at a point in any document in any app with a simple keystroke.
Then later bring up a list with a keystroke, select a bookmark and have the document open and be taken to where the bookmark was placed.
Basically a Services Wiki I guess.
Possible?
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Excellent idea, I would really like such a feature.
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Anyone familar with RTF links? Is it possible to place a link that acts like an html anchor so you can jump to a point in the doc?
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