I love adding to Agenda from the Share Sheet & saving links and things for quick reference, but they just insert as plain hyperlinks. It would be awesome if they could render as rich previews, so it’s easier to distinguish them and quickly browsw by scrolling
Yes and… I would want the option at the time of pasting to control how the link is presented. Eg a modifier key or similar.
Thanks for the feedback! Rich previews for links is something we hear regularly, we’ll take it along.
Drew
By rich links, are you referring to link previews or;
A link that is rendered as whatever was hi-lighted, doc, or file name, default?
It could be either or both.
I read it as link previews, ie the OG style preview card you see in iMessage or Slack with a title, description, and a thumbnail pulled from the page. Tasfia and Trebso, correct me if I’m wrong.
Yes! Useful if available, but I would want to be able to easily control how a url is displayed, both default and on a case by case basis.
I agree. Link previews are absolutely great when used for a specific need like to an explanation, definition, description, a reference to something, which if were written in the existing document would be distracting, a super script link to a footnote, etc. I’ve even made them consisting only of other links when there are multiple paths to take from a starting point. To over use of them is annoying and can be distracting in their own right though.
Good use of the backlinks in the related panel.
So you basically want links to work more like attachments? Where you can choose the display style? Ie inline, with preview or whatever?
Yes! Long pressing the link, or a ••• context menu, or a pop up prompt! Would be so useful
Link previews! Currently I think links render as hyperlinked titles, but the image previews and/or cards with thumbnails & titles, descriptions etc is what I’m looking for
Yep, that would be awesome! If it could work like Images, where we could choose the display style — and even better if we could set a preferred default style in Settings!
Yes, that is the direction we have in mind.
Thanks for confirming, it really helps to know what you are looking for. We will take it along.
Drew
They have traditionally looked a bit like a ‘tool tip’. They are visually formatted just like a normal link with a name that contextually fits in the current sentence. With a ⌃-click****** a small popup is shown for as long as the cursor is there and disappears when moved away.The popup can have a visible frame, or not, which is a brief description of the content relevant to the subject. Personally I prefer the pop-up as a colored background without the frame, resembling highlighted text. At the end of the popup text it’s nice to put a “more” or some sort of indicator of being a link to the full content of the popup/ in-line link subject. I previously didn’t think about with Agenda, the link in the pop-up could open the target in another window to copy, clip, move to yet another window, or whatever. As long as where you go is from a link you’ll have your way back in the related panel. I haven’t played with the previous page function enough to comment but everything has possibilities.
* The reason for the popup appearing with a ⌃-click is so it is not mistakenly triggered each time it’s treated like a normal link.which is also the reason for not using hover links. *
ps: as a side benefit this can help avoid attachments
Thanks Bruce, that’s a useful variant to keep in mind. The Control-click popup avoids accidental triggering, which is a real concern with hover-based previews. We’ll take that along as we look at how this should behave.
Drew