Jason Preston
Writing

In-house linking

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could link to things on your computer the way you can link to pages and posts on the internet?

I was just making a list in Stickies to help me sort my mind around the things I need to get done today, and I wanted to make an entry that linked to a particular e-mail. I can’t do that, of course, so I’ll just have to make a note of the sender and some keywords so I can search for it later.

But I think it would be a really great feature to be able to pick an e-mail, a file, a saved AIM conversation, a sticky, or a calendar entry and be able to “link” to it in any other application. I could make an entry in my calendar (I think I can link those to e-mails, but I’m not sure) and add a link to a related file.

Someone should do this.