A way to differentiate an object that is already linked to a collection and "unlink from" option

Feature Requests
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WHAT DO YOU RECOMMEND

Hello!
I have run into this problem.

Let’s say I have a collection called - Journal.
Then I press ctrl+N and create an object called “xx/xx/xx date’s journal entry”.
Then I link it to the journal collection.

But, the next day, I open the “recently edited tab” and see the “xx/xx/xx date’s journal entry.”
And I find out that I have forgotten if I have linked the object to the “journal” collection.

There is no way for me to know from the recently tabs or even the search menu, if I have already added the object to the collection or not. I can only open the collection and search for the object there to see if the object is part of the collection or not.

This may not be an issue if I only make one object a day, as I can sort the collection to show the last added object on top of the list. But I usually add multiple objects in a day, from the + button the the quick access bar or by pressing ctrl+N (in the same collection).

If I right-click on an object, set, or collection, then the pop-up menu will always show the option “link to ->”, even if the object, set, or collection is already linked to the collection I am trying to link it to.

HOW COULD IT BE DONE

For an object that is already linked to a collection or another object, When I right-click on it, the pop-up menu should have an additional option called “unlink from ->”.
Hovering over this option should bring up a list of all the collections or objects that this object is linked to.
Then I can click on these “linked objects” and unlink them.

RECOMMENDED ALTERNATIVES

I can add every relevant new object from the relevant collection. But using the “+” button in the bottom quick access bar or just typing ctrl+n is a much quicker way to add objects, and I don’t want to lose that speed. And I need a way to unlink objects from a collection without accessing the collection every time.

Enjoying the calendar in the beta version. I know more features are to come. I am also excited about multi-space and multi-player.

Thanks, and good day.

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Perhaps the in-development feature here will help, if we can easily see link (so show if our object is already linked to a collection) :

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That’s very interesting.
But it seems that I have to open the object to see which other objects it is linked to. Am I right in my understanding?
I was looking for a way to unlink the object from any other object or collection from the pop-up menu without opening the object, just like how I can link an object to a collection by right-clicking on the object, without opening it.

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OK, I don’t think the feature “display links” was enough for that, thanks for the precision.

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Thanks for replying. :smiling_face: This, only being able to unlink an object from collection has been a problem for me, along with only being able to add an existing object to a collection, only from the object. I hope this can be implimented soon. :sweat_smile:
Thanks.

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This brings a different application level to finding similar / duplicate items - Duplicate links. :hushed:

I imagine functions showing full locations (within objects) of global / in-object Search results would support this need.

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Bumping this! :slight_smile:

And also, not sure if this warrants an extra FR, but it’d be nice to differentiate already created collections from other objects when selecting the “Link to” to link to a collection. Or as an alternative, to create a different menu to add to Collections (rather than sharing the linking function) and perhaps even allowing the quick creation of new collections.

If you use many collections and/or linking, it gets messy really fast to remember all their names to link them quickly.