In References from the same Entity, preserve time of all references

Ok thanks for the update. I have not done anything with Highlights as I have been intimidated by the disclaimer when setting them up and I don’t really understand much of how they work. This article:

https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Highlights-Overview-310

was hard for me to follow.

You also have the Link-to-Entity feature that I have never used because I haven’t found a good use case. That feature doesn’t give you any context around the link. We find references extremely useful because you can simply write a comment explaining the reference. What would be very useful would be to be able to link to a comment, then explain that, much like you can do here in Discourse. Without that feature, we have to frequently manually paste comments between entities to reference them to readers, which doesn’t have the benefit of including a link back to the originating comment. I made the request for this fuctionality here for the record:

References are without question the top feature for my team of Fibery, not duplicated anywhere else in the market and amazingly simple and easy to understand, and hugely powerful. The only thing I’d really like to see is:

  • Merge with Comments so you can see at a glance all the activity around and entity, that’s this request:
  • Expanded context so you don’t have to do a “soft return” when writing in a referenced entity, much like the way Roam works:

I realize that’s an old post but I illustrated in there how this could look simply.

And this request of course (re: timestamps).

I’d be interested to hear more about your guys’ plans for getting highlights into a more readily accessible functionality, like references. Can you point me to an article about that, I might have missed it. But for now Highlights seem way too complex for us to use and we’d never give up the simplicity of references, even if you never improved any aspect of them, for what I understand to be the functionally of highlights.

Thanks and I hope that is useful!

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