Improve Speed of Creating Entities in Rich Text

[rothnic]

@Chr1sG

Here’s a little tip that can be used to speed up creation and linking of entities.

I just wanted to clarify so the original issue isn’t lost here, but I understand you were responding to a specific question. This particular request is in regard to how many clicks it takes to turn some text into an entity, not necessarily about the contextual linking. I think that should be covered by a separate request, like what @Matt_Blais linked above.

This particular issue is more apparent the more databases there are in the workspace. Many times the type of entity you want to create gets lost in the sea of databases. So, one suggestion was to provide a quick link for the types that are already in the document, for example. Or, sorting the list differently.

The idea is to provide the following improvement in the number of clicks it takes in most cases:

@rothnic

So, we’d go from 1) Highlight, 2) Click Create Entity, 3) Choose type, 4) Click create to 1) Highlight, 2) (in many cases) Click Create Task (or whatever else is important).