More types of custom meta-data

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I’d like to request a few more features related to custom meta-data:

  1. A meta data type that is a document link (or else, allow us to use document links in the “text” type of meta data)
  2. adding onto this, include the documents icon and/or be able to assign a custom icon or color per metadata entry

The inspiration for this comes from Notion, where a database can link to rows in another database, carrying over icons:

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The practical benefit is that you can quickly jump between cross-referenced documents, and also if you change the name of a document, it would be updated where ever that link is used. It has pretty broad use cases in creative or academic settings.

This would be most helpful when using the Outline view

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The matter of this being in the Outline view aside, have you had a chance to look at the Document Bookmarks feature yet? It does most of what you describe wanting to do, such that creating a metadata field specifically for holding one single link would be somewhat redundant, or even having a list of links, since there as a whole tab in the inspector for that which includes a built-in editor that reduces the need for navigation in the main editor.

Have a look at §10.3, Project and Document Bookmarks, in the user manual PDF, for the documentation on the feature. For a brief introduction, there is also a section in the interactive tutorial on this.

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ah, thanks I knew there was project bookmarks but had overlooked Document bookmarks in the inspector.

That should accomplish what I had in mind, will give it a test, thanks!