[Feature Request] Bi-Directional Linking

[Jamie1]

If you ‘Copy Link’ and paste the link to a different document, it’d be awesome if we could enable a setting so that the link is bi-directional.

For example:

• ‘Copy Link’ in Document A
• Paste into Document B
• Go back to Document A
• A link to Document B automatically created.

[Kenneth_Aar]

This would be so awesome!

[Erica]

Linking my reply here since it’s related:

Roam Research, new web-based outliner that supports transclusion & wiki features - thoughts?

Yes, we definitely see the innovator’s dilemma here. Dynalist had [[ links before Roam Research started (we introduced it in April 2016), and we had always wanted to go deeper in that direction. But like you pointed out, if we want to introduce it now, it has to be non-disruptive to current Dynalist users. We’re well aware not all Dynalist users need it. Right now our consideration is to make the bottom “references” area only show when you turn on an option, plus providing a convenience utilit…

[Alan]

I don’t fully understand. Suppose now you Paste into document C. Is it now a tri-directional link? Does clicking in A take you to B? Then how do you get to document C?