On 07/10/2023 15:21, Ihor Radchenko wrote: > Maske writes: > >> The headings could be in different files, yes. >> >> AFAIK, citations don't link two exact points. Footnotes do. > Do you mean that you also want to jump back-and-forth between footnote > definition in the another file and its footnote references? Right: With C-c. And maybe there could work directly commands like "org-footnote-action", being unneeded to create new commands like "org-note-action" with almost the same functionality. > >> I don't understand the option of "include", but I think it wouldn't be >> the case. > Seehttps://orgmode.org/manual/Include-Files.html Thanks, I save it. > >> I really think footnotes would be a particular case of this option. >> >> ** Reference in file A >> :PROPERTIES: >> :ID:       978-84-362-7195-9 >> :END: >> >> ... >> A “comment line” starts with a hash character (#) >> *[n:102@978-84-362-7195-9]* and either a whitespace character or the >> immediate end of the line. >> ... >> >> >> ** Notes in file B >> >> *[n:102@978-84-362-7195-9]* The hash character is important in orgmode. > May you explain the purpose of @978-84-... part? > You seem to assume that a footnote always has a single reference, > which may or may not be the case in practice. If there would be more than one reference, a behavior like that of footnotes would be appropriate? The purpose of the @978-84-... part: @978-84-362-7195-9 would work like the ID for internal links: [[id:978-84-362-7195-9]]. That would allow jumping to the correct heading from any file. I am not a programmer, so the syntax I am sure could be more solid. Example: ** Reference in file A :PROPERTIES: :ID:       978-84-362-7195-9 :END: ... A “comment line” starts with a hash character (#) [n:102@978-84-362-7195-9] and either a whitespace character or the immediate end of the line. ... ** Notes in file B [[id:978-84-362-7195-9]]: Link to heading in file A [n:102@978-84-362-7195-9]: Link to an exact point in file A. Where the point is defined by the LABEL 102, and the file can be find thanks to the ID 978-84-362-7195-9