I apologize if this has been covered recently - I was only able to find one discussion of it, dating to 2007, in this forum, and the Tomboy Manual provided me with no insights. I LOVE this tool (and I especially love how Tomboy allows me to think laterally rather than just linearly), but I am finding that the more intensively I use Tomboy, the more the implicit links start getting in the way. As other posters have noted, many times unwanted links are made. This, obviously, can be reduced by using only odd note titles, but that can make notes unwieldy. For me, the real key is that I don't like my notebooks cross-referencing each other. If I have a note called "index" in one notebook, I want to be able to have a separate "index" note in EACH of my notebooks without having to use a more specific reference for each one. Within a notebook, that is, I need to be able to link to my index for that notebook every time that simple word appears. For the time being, my workaround has been to use a special character to prevent notebooks from cross-referencing (e.g., one notebook will have index* and another will have index^, etc.). It clutters up my text but makes it simple for me to force explicit linking in Tomboy.
Are there any better solutions out there? Are there any plans to enable Tomboy users to selectively disable notebook cross-referencing? I'd love to use Tomboy for 99% of my research work, but at present it would be painful to have to re-type final versions (to rid the text of all those special characters I had been using to organize the draft text without confusing it for a separate project).
Heck, even an RTFM comment would be welcome, so long as you point me to a manual that contains the information I seek.....
Many thanks!
