I often want to link to an item where I remember the item’s “parent” but not the name of the “child” item within it. For example, I want to link to type of fruit whose name I don’t remember but I do know it’s a child of “Fruit”. If I type “[[” and type my search for Fruit, I can link to the Fruit parent but not to items within it (Banana, Apple, Orange) even though I can these child items in the Preview pop-up.
I would love it if there’s a way to create this link without having to navigate to the target item first. If not please consider this a feature request.
How do you imagine it? Do you mean it would be great if we could link to Banana that is under Fruit (and not the Banana under Shopping List) by typing [[Fruit/Ba…]]?
Thanks for replying. The preview pop-up is shown when hovering over a link item. You can see a screenshot of this in the Checkvist Help Linking page. So, in your screenshot, you’d have to hit Enter to create the Fruit link and only then would you see the preview pop-up.
Yes, that’s it. I want to be able to locate and link to Banana via its parent Fruit in cases where
I don’t remember Banana so I need Fruit’s children to be displayed during the linking process or
when I have multiple nodes also named Banana under other parents but want to quickly link only the one under Fruit.
Yeah, that would be nice. Probably not easy to implement. Let’s try to think it through:
Type [[Fruit/
Get items containing literal Fruit/ listed…
…followed by Fruit items that are parents. There can be more than one, therefore…
…they would have to appear collapsed.
Navigation and expanding/collapsing have to be doable via keyboard – Up, Down, Left, Right keys. So far so good.
Continue typing, [[Fruit/B — parents would need to disappear at this point. Or how else?
Children of every Fruit starting with (not containing, only starting with) B are shown.
Some of them could be parents of their own. What do you do at this point? Allow unlimited nested parents in that limited space? Also, are you ok typing it out? [[Fruit/Berries that are yellow on the outside/Banana]]. Probably not. At this point, you think it would be nice to be able to tab to autocompletion.
Thank you for the idea. Currently if you type “Fru Bana” Checkvist will offer for the completion only items that have Fru Bana in the item’s text. But we can try to implement an approach which will find items with Bana and which have Fru in one of the parents. Would it be useful?
Still, this won’t allow to find which child items are present under ‘Fruit’ item.
I can suggest a workaround to find children of Fruit - you can press shift+shift and type “Fruit” in the Lists and Locations tab. After that, by pressing arrow right, you can see the children of this item. Would it help?
Kirill: I like your Shift+Shift search workaround. Once I’ve located the child item I want to link to, I can hit Enter to go to it, ‘tc’ to copy its link, Alt + left arrow to return to my original location and then paste to create the link. This is a bit roundabout but ok for now.
