Thank you! Thank you! That 100% did the trick. I knew it was something 
simple, I just don't have quite enough background knowledge (yet). But I'm 
learning ;-) 

On Sunday, April 25, 2021 at 6:24:00 AM UTC-10 Javier Rojas wrote:

> Hello; I think the issue is: <$link> only works for internal links; for
> external links, use good ol' HTML, for example:
>
> <a href="https://google.com"; target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary">open 
> google in a new tab</a>
>
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 02:40:53AM -0700, Dan Hoffman wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I am new to TW and very much a beginner. I'm using TiddlyWiki on Node.js 
> > 
> > I've learned to use External Links 
> > <https://tiddlywiki.com/#Linking%20in%20WikiText> and find myself 
> > frequently using them to link to various files, something like this:
> > 
> > - [ext[Link to PDF|file:///myfile.pdf]]
> > 
> > I've also had luck applying External Links to links generated by Hook 
> > <https://hookproductivity.com/> (the macOS productivity app). These 
> links 
> > look something like this: 
> > 
> > - [ext[Link to Email|hook://email/ABC123.gmail.com]]
> > - [ext[Link to Folder|hook://file/ABC123]]
> > 
> > All of this works very well. My question is how I can combine External 
> > Links with buttons made using the Shiraz plugin 
> > <https://kookma.github.io/TW-Shiraz/#>. In Shiraz, a button looks 
> something 
> > like this: 
> > 
> > - <$link overrideClass="btn btn-primary" to="target">My Link</$link>
> > 
> > However, when I replace "target" with an External Link (one that works 
> > without a Shiraz button), it no longer works. Instead, the button treats 
> > the link as a tiddler title instead of opening the file in the correct 
> app 
> > (e.g., Mail, Preview, Finder). This is what I expected to work:
> > 
> > - <$link overrideClass="btn btn-primary" to="
> > hook://email/ABC123.gmail.com">My Link</$link>
> > 
> > I have also tried this:
> > 
> > - <$link overrideClass="btn btn-primary" to="
> > [ext[hook://email/ABC123.gmail.com]]">My Link</$link>
> > 
> > I feel like I'm missing something very basic, but I just can't seem to 
> > figure it out. Can anyone point me in the right direction? 
> > 
> > To summarize, I'd like to combine an External Link with a Shiraz button 
> so 
> > that that button opens the local file. 
> > 
> > Thank you kindly for any help you might be able to offer.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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