Thoughts on Links
Thoughts on Links
I would prefer hyperlinks to be handled differently in Zoho. Right now when you are editing a documnet, you cannot click on a hyperlink. You can only edit it. I assume that the link is activated if you post on a blog or something. It would be nice to be able to "activate" or "de-activate" the link by clicking on a tiny icon at the upper-left corner of the link text. When you activate the link, it makes the link live and clickable even when the document is being edited in Zoho. When you deactivate it, you can edit the link text like any other text. The little icon could be optional. The activation could be achieved in the right-click menu or in the Modify Link dialog box.
Another link issue. I would like links to be able to point to other Zoho documents. For instance, let's say I have a document called "March Plan" like this:
MARCH WEB DEVELOPMENT PLAN
WEEK 1
1. Establish business goals and audience. (link will open another Zoho document that details this task)
2. Establish requirements. (link will open requirements document).
3. Choose domain name.
WEEK 2
1. another task
2. yet another task
Linking documents together helps to keep related documents connected without resorting to folders and specific file and tag names. Rather than having to stop what I'm doing and searching for a document, I can just click on the link in the document that I'm looking at.
One more linking issue. I haven't tried printing a document with links, so I don't know how Zoho prints links. I think you need a printing option that allows you to choose whether you want to print hyperlinks with or without the hyperlink styles (blue, underlined). Usually, I want hyperlinks to print just like normal text (black, not underlined). That is not always the case, so the user should be given a choice.