Is there (or are the perhaps plans for) the ability to mark some small bit of text (like a phrase) here and have text there auto-sync with the first text?
Use case:
In Ch 1, Sally says, “blah blah.” Later, someone says, “remember when Sally said ‘blah blah’ and …” and then later, etc.
It would be handy if I could magic-sync a chunk of text so that it automatically kept in-sync, so that e.g. if I change Sally’s first quote to be “blabby blah”, it would automatically get updated everywhere.
I’m currently working-around that by creating a holding document called “sync: Sally’s opening quote” (or whatever) and then everywhere that the quote comes up, adding an Inline Annotation “sync: Sally’s opening quote” and creating a Document Link to that holding document. Then when I need to make a modification to the text, I can go to that holding document and look at all the backlinks and update all the texts. Or a search for “sync:” inside an Annotation works also.
Honestly: that workaround works great in light of (1) this case doesn’t come up super often, and (2) sometimes I’d don’t want it to be 100% automatic anyway (say, a character mis-quotes, and that’s what I want, but I do want to manually adjust as needed), etc.
It would be helpful if I could have the backlink link directly to the link, instead of the document (sometimes the link and annotation are tucked in a few thousand words and there are dozens of other links and annotations in there).
It also would be helpful if I could Save As Collection the search results for Find by Formatting.
But both of those topics are probably off-topic (separate wishes) and only indirectly related to this wish: the ability to auto-sync some text.