14 May 2019

Internal Link Summary

Previously I seldom used anything other than URLs, and this chapter taught me more on Internal Link. Several things are summarized in the video:

Use # to locate heading with same CUSTOM_ID

to locate heading with same Plain text link [[textlink]] will follow below priority: Dedicated target (double angular brackets) Org element (table, list, etc w/ #+NAME ) Heading with exact same text

will follow below priority: Radio Target (triple angular brackets): automatic links

I find Radio Target most interesting. You may wish to check out Rainer König’s use case.

Link Abbreviation

Link abbreviation allows user to relate linkword to replacement text, which saves much typing/copy-pasting. A video is worth a thousand words.

I maintain a list of nice restaurants I’ve been to, and previously I’d manually copy link from OpenRice, a local restaurant directory website. Now that I created a linkword for it, I could just type openrice:La Vache! . Neat!

Org-mode Hidden Gems series: