Thanks!
You can expand this section if you want to read what I do.
I try to tie ideas together and use the power of the Web (hyperlinks) and Markdown (the markup language that the Forum’s Discourse platform seems to default to) to make relevant connections to other bits of information if I think they’ll support or shed light on what I’m trying to communicate in the moment.
This is what I often do while composing a post:
- Type what I want to say.
- Navigate to a post or topic that I want to link to and copy that link (i.e., put it in the clipboard). Sometimes I open a new browser tab for this, and sometimes I just navigate in the same tab because Discourse automatically saves drafts and maintains the composer even when navigating to other topics.
- If it’s a particular post in a topic that I want to link to, then I usually click the post date (upper-right corner of the post) and then hit the copy icon in the pop-up.
- If it’s an actual topic (because I want to direct someone to the first post at the top of a topic), then I will either do the same thing with that topic’s original post or hit the
Share button after the topic’s last post.
- To create the actual link, sometimes I use Markdown or HTML, but usually I just select the text that I want to be the “anchor” and then paste the link I have in the clipboard. I discovered this method by happy accident, but Discourse has been designed to be smart enough not to just replace the selected text with what I have in the clipboard but to retain it and add the necessary Markdown to turn it into a hyperlink.
And sometimes I just use a Onebox, like for this topic I read recently (which won’t actually show up as a Onebox here because it’s inside a “details” section in this post as I write it):
Creating rich link previews with Onebox - Using Discourse - Discourse Meta
That article explains more about hyperlinking and mentions the select-and-paste thing.[1]
I hope this helps! Feel free to send a message if you have any questions.
Back on topic, part of my goal for today is to update my v3.0.0 phone to v3.0.5 and re-test the “Cameras as Chime” feature to see if it still gives the “Fail” message as well as the problems with “Empty” groups that I mentioned in the v3.0 announcement topic.
Discourse has spoiled me with this feature, and I find my fingers wanting to do the same thing when composing messages in Gmail, but it frustratingly does not work there! ↩︎