Support for Block Reference by Alias

[devin]

Hi everyone, thank you for this amazing tool. I appreciate it very much.

Something that I find myself missing is the ability to quickly and easily reference a block of a page.

In my notes, I often have different topics that are too small to warrant breaking out into their own pages, but they’re often numerous. So, if I have a page for Vendor 1 and a section of the page for Product A, it would be nice to create a link in the logical form of [[Vendor 1/Product A]] that links to the Product A block.

When I use the alias:: property on a block, it seems to want to create a page rather than associate the alias to the block. If the presence of the alias on the block could be used in conjunction with the page linking syntax to create a pathed link, that would be very useful.

Thanks again.

[musings]

devin,

I’m a little confused. Isn’t what you’re after satisfied by a block reference ((ridiculously-long-internally-generated-reference))?

[Thorah]

Is what you’re wanting a ‘friendly’/human readable name for a block.

Did you already know that if you type (()) you can search for a block by its content.

So for example I made this page with the subblock as you can see.

Then I go to my homepage (or any page for that matter and type ((. The system automatically does the other two brackets for me and a prompt pops up where I can search by typing.
If I type in ‘product A’ all the relevant blocks come up. They even have their page name as a bit of a breadcrumb trail so you know which product A you’re selecting.

Is that what you’re wanting?

[Rishabh_Chakrabarti]

I also support this. Like pages, even blocks should have an alias property