Add support for block-level linking

[robgrace]

(This is more of a core feature, rather than an enhancement, inasmuch as foam is trying to replicate Roam behavior):

Roam, and now Obsidian, provide support for block-level linking between markdown notes. It would be great if Roam could follow suit and provide this capapbilty.

Unfortunately, there are now three styles of intra-note linking to choose from:

• Roam: ((block-id)) to text block (bullet) with internal block-id
• Obsidian: [[NoteTitle#^block-id]] -- link to a text block annotated with ^block-id
• Extended Markdown: [Description](#heading-id) -- link to a heading annotated with {#custom-id}

I vote for the Obsidian-style linking, since this is the format that I'd imagine most people will be co-editing with vscode.

[ingalless]

Hey @robgrace!
Great suggestion, and one that had work started on it a while back:

Foam Sneak Peek: Block Referencing and Block Embedding

It's one of the features we want in Foam

[5hay]

I really like the ^hash syntax at the end of a block. Is there any progress made or timeline specified when we can expect a first version that includes this feature? Have a nice Sunday everyone.

[kisnows]

Really need this feature.

[khramoff]

Hey, @ingalless. Definitely looks great! Is there any news, progress?

Long time, no see.
If there's any way, I can participate in this, it would be nice.

[ingalless]

@khramoff @5hay I've not heard of any progress recently. Foam has been undergoing a lot of underyling changes as of late. If I hear any whispers I'll try remember to update this 👍🏻

[Kcalb35]

I'm looking forward to this feature, because I really need to re-arrange my blocks of notes in another way. Hope to hear of any progress.

[ChenguangZhang]

It has been more than 1 year since the sneak peek video was uploaded and there is no block referencing (?). Any workaround?

[huyz]

I vote for the Obsidian-style linking, since this is the format that I'd imagine most people will be co-editing with vscode.

+1. Dendron also uses the #^hash link format.

[briansunter]

I would still really like to see this

[riccardoferretti]

Yes I agree, and the support for sections (#856) implicitly added support for blocks in the model (as a block can modeled as a "type" of section), now it would be a matter of changing the markdown parser to recognize the anchors.
Then of course we'd need to add any convenience that we'd want to make blocks easy to use (to be discussed).

[yummta]

Any news about this? I came from Obsidian and this feature is a really useful.