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How much of this is down to the examples chosen? It seems to me that in practice you would generally use it with a specific link in mind (like the "Rust prehistory" or "notes on a smaller rust") ones; although I can see that those might be a bit more cumbersome to show in the post, given that they might use longer queries.



Wouldn't it be easier to place specific links at that point? If you know what you want to link to...


> It’s not that I don’t know what I want to link to. Most of the posts I write are responses to things I’ve read. I know what I want to link to, but I don’t want to lose flow to hunt down a link while writing. I could go back at the end and insert links retrospectively, but it takes more time than I’d like to hop between browser, editor, and what I was thinking about at that point. It would be nice if I could mark links as I write, while still being able to refine each link in-editor as I edit and revise later.

> I wish there was a faster way to link the posts I write.




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