2024-03-04 - Feature Request - General link

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Welcome to 2024-03-04 - Feature Request - General link.
Diuscussion at https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/2024-03-04-feature-request-general-link/36466?u=coffee

2024-03-07 - muzak says -This is already being worked on for both Android and iOS.
Check this out: Mobile: Resolves #8639: implement callback url by tiberiusteng · Pull Request #9803 · laurent22/joplin · GitHub 

2024-03-05 - 19:50 - copied to 
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/2024-03-04-feature-request-general-link/36466/3?u=coffee
as suggested.

As of 2024-03-04, Joplin uses two types of links:
Markdown link
external link

A Markdown link works as a direct link to a specific note in both an Android app and a Windows app when you put it manually into the search field of a Joplin app.

An external link only works for the Windows app as a direct jump to a specific note. The external link does not work on an Android smartphone with an Android app.

I suggest that a new type of “General link”  is also introduced, which works equally well on an Android smartphone and on a Windows PC and which opens the note immediately in the installed app, regardless of whether Windows, Android or Apple.

I suggest that a new type of “General link” is also introduced

Perhaps it is possible to further develop the Joplin Android app so that it can also be accessed on an Android smartphone via the external link joplin://x-callback-url/openNote?id=…

A third link type would then not be necessary.

I consider such a “General link” to be particularly important for collaboration in Joplin teams that use Joplin Cloud and work with shared folders.

You could post such a general link in a WhatsApp group and tell your team that they should please take a look at this note under this general link without having to worry about who has installed which Joplin app on which operating system.

I have posted the link to this page for discussion under
https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/2024-03-04-feature-request-general-link/36466?u=coffee

You can see this kind of general link on Bayerischer Rundfunk’s offering

Example of a General link:
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/kultur/sportfreunde-stiller-organisieren-kultur-konvoi-fuer-die-ukraine,U5ggdnw

If this link is called up on an Android smartphone on which the BR24 - Nachrichten app is installed, the jump destination is called up directly in the BR24 - Nachrichten app.

If the same link is called up on a Windows PC, the jump destination is opened directly in the standard browser.

The BR24 - Nachrichten app is available at
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.br.sep.news.br24&pcampaignid=web_share