Apologies, my original post was not clear. It's better to ignore it.

My suggestion is with respect to desktop MLO. There's two contexts here 
with respect to what happens with a URL. In the notes, and in a node (a 
task). My suggestion has to do with links in a node. Links in the notes are 
fine in that they a clickable. Links in a node are not fine, in that they 
are not clickable.

For a node I suggest making links clickable by using a ctrl + click 
keyboard combination. 

That is, while preserving in a node the *click to edit a node* 
functionality; and preserving in a note the *click to open a link* 
functionality.

If that change was made I'd be satisfied.

However, if that change was made then, for a consistent user experience, it 
might be better to also add ctrl + click keyboard combination *open a link* 
functionality to notes, in addition to nodes.  That is, while preserving in 
a node the *click to edit a node* functionality; and preserving in a note 
the *click to open a link* functionality. 

On Friday, February 12, 2021 at 10:22:16 AM UTC+11 Stéph wrote:

> We might be talking at cross-purposes here. In the desktop copy of MLO, I 
> can hover over a link in the Notes pane and my mouse turns to a pointing 
> finger. I don't have to hold ctrl, I just click and it opens the link in my 
> browser. I thought that you were saying you didn't like that and you wanted 
> to replace it with Ctrl+click to access the link, like in MS Word. Now I 
> understand that you're proposing setting up a keyboard shortcut combination 
> to open the link, so that you don't have to use the mouse - is that right?
>
> On Thursday, 11 February 2021 at 04:00:58 UTC [email protected] wrote:
>
>>
>> Apologies Stéphane for not responding nearer in time to your response (I 
>> wasn't subscribed to the topic, I am now).
>>
>> The most efficient current procedure to get a link from MLO into a 
>> browser involves:
>>
>> 1. In MLO. Click node to edit (as you suggest).
>> 2. In ML. Ctrl + A to select all the text of node, in the case that the 
>> node contains only a link; or (as you suggest) using mouse or keyboard to 
>> manually select the text.
>> 3. In MLO. Ctrl + C to copy the link.
>> 4. In Browser. Ctrl + V to paste the link
>> 5. In Browser. [Enter] to execute web page loading.
>>
>> There's nothing unintuitive about this procedure, at least for those of 
>> us at a minimal level of computer literacy. The problem is, rather, that's 
>> an ineffecient procedure compared to  *ctrl + click to open a link* 
>> functionality.
>>
>> Note also introducing *ctrl + click to open a link* functionality would 
>> not interfere with *click to edit a node* functionality. So it's not a 
>> choice of one functionality over another.
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, September 27, 2015 at 4:24:10 PM UTC+10 Stéph wrote:
>>
>>> Personally I prefer the click to open functionality. To edit the text, 
>>> you can still drag to select or use the keyboard to position your cursor 
>>> (perhaps more like how you edit links I Excel, rather than Word). I hope 
>>> those two options can become intuitive for you too. 
>>>
>>> Stéphane
>>
>>

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