Things: cross-link to Obsidian and back

Wherever possible I like to link apps to each other. My to-dos for my personal and work life are in Things. And my Small Business System JDex notes are in Obsidian. I help myself out by connecting the apps together.

I'll just show you how to do this here, but both apps use what's called a URI scheme if you want to explore the concepts further.¹

From Things to Obsidian

1. Get the URL of the Obsidian note you want to link to by right-clicking it and selecting Copy Obsidian URL.

   If you're linking from a category-level project, link to the AC.00 note. In this case I'm linking from SBS.31 so I'll get the link to note 31.00 List of all marketing, PR, & communications.

2. In the notes of your Things project, add a Markdown link.

   Things 'supports' Markdown here but doesn't do much with it. You can just paste the link and it'll be clickable. But I like to indicate to myself where I'm going to be taken, so I do the full Markdown syntax by adding [JDex](link://).²

   

From Obsidian to Things

1. Get the URI of the Things project you want to link to by right-clicking it, selecting Share…, and clicking Copy Link.

2. In your Obsidian note, add a Markdown link 'above the line'.

   I'll talk about this more in a dedicated post, but I prefer to keep metadata above a horizontal line, and then actual notes below the line. This link counts as metadata.

   As each of the JDex notes already contains a link to 'Open in the Small Business System', add your link to 'Open in Things' directly below.