Replace reference to a Rem by another one

[Luke]

Hello

I am quite new to RemNote and I hope this question is not “stupid.”

While writing my notes on a lecture I created some “Rems” for some terms.
Later on I was defining them in another document. However, now I have two references/rems for the same word. Is it possible to replace all the references to the first created rem with the later created one?

Example:

LectureNote1:
[[Mitochondria]] are the powerhouse of the [[cell]].

Later I create a document for the “Cell”

- Cell
    - Mitochondria
      - characteristics:: bla bla
      - product:: ATP
      - etc.

I now want that all my references that I have made to the first created rem “Mitochondria” in LectureNote1 are replaced by a link to the rem “Mitochondria” defined in the “Cell”-document.

Thank you very much for your help.

[Dante_Gaxiola]

Actually is very easy, you just need to merge both rems. Click on the old one and press Crtl + shift + alt + E, type Mitochondria and select the one you want. There you go, all your previous references now direct to the new mitochondria. Do that work for you?

[Luke]

Thank you Dante_Gaxiola ! This was exactly what I was searching for. I tried it and it works perfectly fine. I hope this will also help others.

[ognsya]

I don’t think this can be done all at once.
But if you go to the Mitochondria Rem, at the bottom you can expand and see all Text References to it.

See a similar question here:

Way to turn all text references into Backlinks

Hi everybody! I just started using remNote, and I am finding it fantastic, but there is something bugging me off. Let’s say that I am writing about a book, and I created a reference (using [[ ) for the author name. In the process of writing, I mention the author’s name a few times, without making a reference. Is there some way to automatically transform all text references in a document into references (with the blue link)?

[Dante_Gaxiola]

My pleasure, man! Thanks to the devs! I think the option to merge should be in the ··· menu at the rem level, though.

[Luke]

Yes I absolutely agree!

When you start using RemNote “in the middle of the process” you will often end up with some words you want to make a rem of later but do not know yet where to put them exactly. So this feature is quite valuable to organize/structure your rems later.