I’d like it if I could paste a link into the editor (for either comments or posts), then click or hover over it to see an option to automatically covert the text to the name of the page, similar to how that happens in Google Docs.
This would be most valuable to me in comments, since I usually copy posts from Google Docs anyway.
I use a lot of links in comments, and think it’s valuable to do so (to connect conversations to other relevant work), but sometimes I feel a bit inclined to not bother or not write the actual title (just leaving the URL) since it’s a hassle.
I feel like I remember saying this somewhere else already, and it’s very possible someone else has suggested it here too.
I’d really like this for regular Forum posts and (especially) comments too; I’d like to be able to type “[[” and then start typing the name of the post, automatically see a drop down menu with posts that include that text in their name, and then just click on it to have the name appear in the text, with the right hyperlink. At the moment, I have to open a new tab, find the post, and either copy the title and then separately the link or write title and copy the link. I do a lot of linking to other Forum posts from within Forum posts and comments, so this is a little annoying.
I think ideally this would also show LessWrong posts, since people link to them fairly often too.
I say “(especially) comments” because I almost always draft posts in Google docs, where this feature wouldn’t really help me, whereas I write comments in the Forum editor from the start.
I’d like it if I could paste a link into the editor (for either comments or posts), then click or hover over it to see an option to automatically covert the text to the name of the page, similar to how that happens in Google Docs.
This would be most valuable to me in comments, since I usually copy posts from Google Docs anyway.
I use a lot of links in comments, and think it’s valuable to do so (to connect conversations to other relevant work), but sometimes I feel a bit inclined to not bother or not write the actual title (just leaving the URL) since it’s a hassle.
I feel like I remember saying this somewhere else already, and it’s very possible someone else has suggested it here too.
ETA: Oh, I just stumbled upon the comment of mine that I was half-remembering, which was for a somewhat different feature motivated by a similar issue: