Creating a new note from within a note: [[<test::success]]

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Hello all!

When I type [[<test::success]], it does create a new note ‘test’ with a backlink. However, the text in the ‘test’ note starts with a colon i.e. :success.

Why might this colon be appearing on the text in the new note?

I am using the latest version of Tinderbox and MacOS.

Thank you!

GN

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I see this too. Could be an unexpected behavior that @eastgate needs to look at, or it is by design. Not sure.

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I think it’s an error in handling the fairly-uncommon combination of < and ::. I’ll find out.

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Is the syntax correct in the opting example? Looking at Text link creation via the Ziplinking method, I see:

Making a backlink from the link target

The method can create backlinks from the destination note. [[]] will create a link to “that note”, and then will append the name of this note to the text of “that note” and link the name back to this note. The mark-up needed is used as a wrapper around the entire input string. Thus:

[[<New Idea>]]

…will create a new note called ‘New Idea’ and link to it. If this method is mixed with other syntax variations, like so:

[[<New Idea|great idea::Recent innovation>]]

…will create a new note called ‘New Idea’ and link to it via anchor text ‘great idea’ and add a backlink with the anchor text ‘Recent innovation’.

IMPORTANT: note how the closing ‘>’ comes at the end, immediately before the closing ‘]]’ and not before the ‘|’ as might be assumed if all the different parts of syntax were just chained.

So unless the new not is meant to be called <text rather than text then the missing closing > in the OP’s examples [[<test::success]] is aslo a factor.

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Thank you! Got it! I missed the closing >

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