Shortening links?

There’s no way to hide the link behind a title (though maybe someday, I like the idea, just work!). But you can make links shorter by using relative links:

  1. Make sure that you’ve saved your document. Links are relative to this location.
  2. Drag and drop the file into the document.
  3. Shorten the link using relative link syntax.

For example I’ve just saved a TaskPaper file to my Desktop, and I also have an app named Linguan.app on my desk that I’d like to link to. When I drag that app onto my TaskPaper document I get the link:

/Users/jessegrosjean/Desktop/Linguan.app

Since both my TaskPaper document and Linguan.app are in the same folder (on the desktop) I can shorten that link to:

./Linguan.app

The nice think about relative links is they will continue to work if you move the related files (all together) to a different location, or different computer.

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