Url Scheme (deep link) on Mobile platform is desperately wanted

Simeonh2021 · May 12, 2022, 9:49am

I’m very grateful that the URL scheme (deep link) feature has been implemented on the desktop platform, yet I’ve been waiting for it to be added to the mobile platform (for me, iOS). In a sense, I believe the URL scheme would be more widely used on a phone. For example, a URL scheme can build meaningful links between apps like Trello or Things or Reminders and Logseq to complement its very poor notification and visualization system.

I’m wondering if the mobile URL scheme feature is on the roadmap and how prior it is? Many thanks.

Aryan · May 12, 2022, 11:15am

Soon. next release I believe.

NickUnique · May 19, 2022, 9:36am

Interesting, can you please tell more about how to use a deep link on desktop?

Marcin_Czech · May 30, 2022, 3:59pm

hey
just checking if there are any updates on this for iOS?

Ramses · May 30, 2022, 6:39pm

Yes! Since the latest Logseq mobile for iOS (version 0.7.0.), deep linking is now available

See this tweet for a demo:

Ramses · May 30, 2022, 6:42pm

See this tweet and the one it links to for a demo on how to use deep linking on Logseq desktop:

Marcin_Czech · June 14, 2022, 7:22am

@Ramses
Is there a way to deep link to a specific file in the graph?

I’m trying to reference journal pages that are in the format: yyyy_MM_dd.md
so this doesn’t work “logseq://graph/(graphName)?page=(pageName)”
where pageName is derived from the journal file (the page names for journals are different by default in Logseq).

If I change the preferred date format to yyyy_MM_dd in Logseq everything works fine.

Would it be possible to add referencing a file additionally to pages?
e.g.
logseq://graph/(graphName)?file=(filename)

Thanks

Ramses · June 14, 2022, 12:46pm

I’m not an engineer (just a community manager), so excuse my ignorance. What would you gain from being able link to the .md extension in Logseq? I use the yyyy/MM/dd format and can open journal pages fine… My links look like this: logseq://graph/Ramses?page=2022%2F06%2F14

If you do Right-Click on a Journal page’s date and select Copy Page URL, you’ll see the structure for your graph.

Marcin_Czech · June 14, 2022, 1:26pm

Thanks Ramses for the quick response

This is my use case:

I would like to add deep linking from the NeuraCache app to Logseq.

NeuraCache scans Logseq folders or subfolders and finds cards within yyyy_MM_dd.md files.
When NeuraCache extracts the cards from these files - this is the only information it has (yyyy_MM_dd)

Users on the other hand can have a completely different setting for date format in Logseq. This means that linking via yyyy_MM_dd as a page parameter does not work in most of the cases — unless the user explicitly sets a preferred date format to yyyy_MM_dd (very unlikely)

It’s possible that there is a different way to deep link and I just don’t know about it

Let me know if that makes sense.

Aryan · June 14, 2022, 1:33pm

Already exists I believe using the file parameter. Was added a few versions back.

Check line 105 on this thing I made for Raycast.

github.com

raycast/extensions/blob/main/extensions/logseq/src/utils.ts

import { getPreferenceValues, showToast, Toast } from "@raycast/api";
import { parseEDNString } from "edn-data";
import path from "path";
import * as R from "ramda";
import dayjs from "dayjs";
import fs from "fs";
import untildify from "untildify";

// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-empty-function
export const noop = () => {};
export const prependStr = (leading: string) => (val: string) => leading + val;
export const appendStr = (toAppend: string) => (val: string) => val + toAppend;

export const generateContentToAppend = (content: string, isOrgMode: boolean) => {
  const leadingStr = isOrgMode ? "\n* " : "\n- ";
  return R.compose(prependStr(leadingStr), R.replace(/\n/g, leadingStr))(content);
};

const validateFolderPath = (folder: string) => {
  return fs.promises

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Marcin_Czech · June 14, 2022, 6:23pm

Thanks @Aryan

I’ve tried various options
"logseq://graph/main?file=2022_05_28.md"
"logseq://graph/main?file=2022_05_28"
"logseq://graph/main?file=journals/2022_05_28.md

no luck, it doesn’t work for me — it works fine with
"logseq://graph/main?page=2022_05_28"
and preferred date format in Logseq yyyy_MM_dd

P.S - I’m on iOS 15.5 and Logseq 0.7.2

Donrar · February 22, 2023, 10:02am

@Ramses I’m wondering if this is implemented in the Android version, doesn’t seem to be the case though. If it isn’t, are there any plans do so? Thanks!

alex0 · September 9, 2023, 7:56pm

Can someone confirm that deep links are not supported on Android? @Ramses @Junyi_Du

alex0 · September 24, 2023, 10:40am

Update — apparently deep links are supposed to work on Android according to this commit message:

Let’s see if with the fix above it will work.