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[Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Alessia <alemim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hallo all,
> I'm trying to split a huge notebook in two smaller ones considering that
> it's have basically two functions
> 1 keep track of my activity like books read or to-read, work, various
> wishlists, budget pages et similar
> 2 create and organize a list of todos
> So I'd have Notebook1 with  list of todos and a Notebook 2 with a list of
> pages of various kind( description, notes etc)
>
> A lot of todos (but not all) are linked to the Notebook 1 entries for
> example
> todo 1 in Notebook 2  would be i.e. "buy Book X" linked with the Notebook 1
> page/ess describing Book X ( Plot, author, why Id' like to read it).
> I usually do it in one huge Notebook and use the task list but I'd prefer,
> if possible to separate the "todo" function from the "note/description etc"
> function. For this I though to link the a single Notebook 2 Todo to the
> relative Notebook 1 page/s if those pages exists.
> I've tried to make this link but It didn't work, surely I'm mistaking
> something.
> Is it possibile to link one or more notebook eachother?

Sure, these are called "interwiki links", see
http://www.zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Links.html

So you can link to a page in another notebook using syntax like:
"notebook?page".

Hope this helps,

Jaap