I see. Similar issue with the "RTF layer discussed here perhaps? I didn’t draw the connection. Hope @eastgate can address this at some point.
My use case is that I want to do things like have a look at “The East is rising and the West declining” and other related themes in PRC media outlets. One note per theme. But having a separate note for each mention of a theme would quickly overwhelm. So I thought I would just drag in the link when I encountered a mention to a particular theme. Which I can.
But at some point I’ll want to archive the notes to DEVONthink by exporting as individual Markdown files to a folder that DEVONthink can index and that I can also read on iOS, etc., external and note-to-note links intact.
On 1b) I assume the .html extension is not necessarily unintended. Good for .html export, of course, but not for export to Markdown, where internal links in [[filename]] format generally are more useful. I think I’ve found a way to extract that and will post separately.