Color of wiki links: Should it be more clearly distinguishable from item links?

DEVONthink
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Hi,

Just wanted to share some thoughts on wiki links and the fact that their color is almost indistinguishable from that of regular item links.

This may be a matter of personal preference, but isn’t the assumption that wiki links have very different meaning than item links? Typically it would be a matter of potentially relevant relations versus a “hard-coded” connection to some other database item.

Based on this use of wiki links, which I’m assuming is the most typical one, I think there is some validity to the argument that they should also be clearly visually distinguished.

Perhaps there could be a global preference in the settings to determine the color?

Cheers

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but isn’t the assumption that wiki links have very different meaning than item links?

I wouldn’t make that assumption. The meaning is subjective and up to the interpretation of the user in the context of the links’ use.

Whether the types of links could be distinguishable from each other is up to Development to assess.

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I wanted to follow up here to ask if this is something that might be considered.

Perhaps there could be a preference allowing users to specify the color of wiki links. Then everyone can choose as per their needs whether they would like them to be distinguished from regular item links or not.

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Considered? Sure.
Implemented? Not so sure. :wink:

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