Feature Request: Linking enties, with backlinks
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I’m a fervent user of a lot of apps that support backlinking (ever since Roam Research introduced it in 2020 iirc), so I am very familiar with the feature. But I don’t see how it would work in Day One? As in, in all the other apps I am using, you put the page title in between [[]] to create a link, which is nice and easy to use etc; but entries in Day One don’t have titles. And typing a significant word might end up with a lot of results unless the word is very rare; so I’m not sure how to solve for this in a way that works for people like me (almost 12k entries, many of them over 1000 words).
Maybe it could work somewhat like it’s working now, i.e. you start from the entry you want to link to and get a link from there to add it to the other entry; but everything, even showing the link itself, is more complicated when you don’t have a short title. This isn’t to say that I wouldn’t welcome the feature, but just to point out it’s nowhere as easy to do in DO as it seems to be in those other apps.
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Hi there!
I recommend you check out our Linking Journal Entries support guide: https://dayoneapp.com/guides/tips-and-tutorials/linking-journal-entries/ I believe you may find a method of linking entries there which works for your use case.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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Another vote for easily linking journal entries in DayOne. The five step process and digging through the menus to find the DayOne url scheme is too cumbersome. Even Apple Notes allows you to link notes by simply typing “>>” and list of notes appear for linking. It needs to be more seamless so you can link a note while thinking and writing. You shouldn’t have to leave your thought process to link to another entry. I was using Obsidian for about 6 months and left DayOne, came back to DayOne eventually but the simple note linking is the one feature that I really miss.
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Hi @spuchinsky,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on linking journal entries in Day One.
I’ll make sure to pass your feedback along to our development team. -
bumping.
I would prefer the “Obsidian way” of linking, too. Would make so much sense in the journaling context IMHO.
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Hi @alexjoneswolsey,
Thanks for adding your vote! 🙏
I’ve gone ahead and added your feedback to our internal feature request for improved entry linking and backlinking, similar to what’s available in apps like Obsidian.
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Hi,
Please add my vote for improved entry linking and backlinking as well. It would be helpful and faster for me to create indexes of my entries in certain anchor “journal notes”.
Over time, the number of entries in certain journals is a lot and navigating through them sometimes becomes a bit tedious.
Thank you Team.
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