# In References from the same Entity, preserve time of all references **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 3:40am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-references-from-the-same-entity-preserve-time-of-all-references/1722 "2021-06-25T03:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![B\_Sp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@B\_Sp](https://community.fibery.io/u/B_Sp)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-references-from-the-same-entity-preserve-time-of-all-references/1722/7 "2025-01-10T23:08:19Z")
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](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: > [@Ability to quote text across Fibery like in Discourse](https://community.fibery.io/t/ability-to-quote-text-across-fibery-like-in-discourse/3336): > > I keep coming back, at least one time daily, while working in Fibery, to the need to quote text, most often in comments, to use in another part of Fibery. This is most frequently having to do with communicating with my team in Fibery, or creating new content that stems from existing stuff. We have been talking in here in many cases about how nice it would be to simple have the ability to quote like in Discourse, here’s an example of @Oshyan talking about it: Since we don’t expressly have a r… 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: > [@Merge Comments and References in one common Stream for better flow](https://community.fibery.io/t/merge-comments-and-references-in-one-common-stream-for-better-flow/2846): > > Hi, as my team moves along in Fibery, we continue to find References probably the most unique and useful feature. It is amazingly easy to simply type “ctrl” + K, then start typing out the name of any existing entity, or similarly create inline a new entity, while writing in Fibery. The fact that these mentioned entities then pick up the whole context of what’s written in their references area is huge. A big way this can provide flexibility and save time when navigating in Fibery is if you want… - Expanded context so you don’t have to do a “soft return” when writing in a referenced entity, much like the way Roam works: > [@In Highlights, "Roam-like" inclusion of Hierarchy of Text Blocks](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-highlights-roam-like-inclusion-of-hierarchy-of-text-blocks/1135/3): > > Hey, thanks for the response. In essence, yes that is right. Additionally though, the way the link-from-highlight feature displays the related Entity is also not as good, as you have to click the logo of the Entity in question to see it. We do a lot of free flow writing in Fibery in meetings, planning of work, etc. and in fact the ability to quickly bring up any entity with “#”, create entities as well, see the entire entity’s name without it being tru… 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! --- _[View the full topic](https://community.fibery.io/t/in-references-from-the-same-entity-preserve-time-of-all-references/1722)._