Hi Herb, I’m attempting to use a markdown link in a given note, in order to link to a PDF elsewhere in my documents folder. In a few other programs, I can use this type of link, and it opens up the file that it points to. Is this possible in Notenik? I tried to search here on this questions discourse and in the knowledge base, and I’ve given full access to my documents folder.
I get a specific error saying Notenik doesn’t have permission to access the file.
Basically it’s a markdown link to a pathname, and clicking that link opens up the file. [Link name(/pathname) and I omitted the right bracket on purpose here
Notenik makes it easy to link to local files when using a separate Link field. But when using a Markdown link to link to a local file, I imagine you would need to use the full path, prefixed with file:///. Are you using something like this, or are you trying to use a relative path?
Thanks for the feedback! In Notenik Version 15.0.0 (683), I can confirm the file path using File:/// works. Thank you!!
So was trying different ways last week with no luck, and I granted access to my Users folder last week based on some other threads here, and that wasn’t working… and then I tried to get more specific with granting access to just the documents folder. No dice.
I do think it was a me problem, and just being a novice to markdown
However, these links now work, right click, and open in new window. Examples below:
[PDF Link A(/Users/…/file.pdf)
[PDF Link B(File:///User/…/file.pdf)
I omitted the right bracket above for display purposes.
So this is great - now as I create notes in Notenik, I can reference entire PDFs at the click of a button. Notenik is helping me advance my photography, and this type of workflow is very valuable and time saving for me. And similarly, as part of a broader organizational project, I am scanning and saving a ton of documents as PDFs, and this Notenik workflow provides easy reference. Things like insurance, credit card agreements, and being able to recall the actual PDF from Notenik saves me a good amount of clicking!
I get some emails/newsletters from OmniFocus and they mentioned hookmark in an email I just received recently - I guess this is worth checking out? Can you share your use case/s? Does hookmark basically link things that might otherwise be difficult to link? For example, if I’m writing an essay in Word, and it references a song in Apple Music, a movie somewhere, and a tableau file, all on my Mac, would hookmark make it easy to open those things from the word doc?
Like, at work on my windows machine, linking things is pretty easy but on Mac I haven’t found the same utility so I assume hookmark bridges this gap somewhat. Thanks for mentioning it!
