Universal links: If that program supports running external commands in its links, you can simply copy a Universal Link to a note and use that as the link target. This is described in Now you can insert a link pointing to a WhizFolders note in any application that supports hyperlinks.
Shortcuts: Sometimes, that other program may not support the above feature of having commands as links. Instead, it might support a limited external link that can only execute a shortcut. In this case, you will need to create a shortcut to the note and then use it. Here are steps to create shortcuts to WhizFolder documents or to individual notes within them.
Creating a shortcut to open a WhizFolder document: This is described in Always opening the same document when starting.
Creating a shortcut to open WhizFolders, positioned on a particular note: We will be giving this feature in the next version by a direct Tools menu. But for now, you can follow this procedure.
- You need to create a BAT utility only once:
Using Notepad, create a file called “mystart.bat” with the following line in it:
start %1Copy this file mystart.bat to a folder on your path, for example, to the Windows folder. You need to do this step only once and can use this utility later for all such shortcuts.
- Copy the universal link in WhizFolders for which you want to create a desktop shortcut.
- On the desktop, right-click New–Shortcut and enter the following in the Location box:
mystart universal-link-copied-above
- Click on Next, and give a name to this shortcut.
- Click on Finish and the shortcut will be created on the desktop. Double-click it to test whether it opens WhizFolders at the note correctly.
- Now you can use this shortcut as a link target in that other program. You can even rename this shortcut to a shorter name or copy it (using Windows Explorer) to another folder if that makes it easier to remember its name.