# Auto Bookmarks plugin

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-bookmarks-plugin/110250
**Category:** Plugin
**Created:** [February 27, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-bookmarks-plugin/110250 "2019-02-27T16:20:28Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2019, 6:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/auto-bookmarks-plugin/110250/6 "2019-02-27T18:05:39Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
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> It seems like it’d be easy enough to roll that into core.

> [@TheBestPessimist](#):
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> Why isn’t this functionality in core already?

When @eviltrout added the anchor functionality in core he did postpone the automagic anchor creation because it’s not that simple, since you need to pick up a pattern, parse the entire post to deduplicate anchors, etc

> [@Linking to a heading within a post or topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/linking-to-a-heading-within-a-post-or-topic/47552/1):
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> Going forward, we might want to consider auto generating ids for heading tags. Github’s markdown engine does this. For example, `<h3>test</h3>` automatically becomes `<h3 id='test'>test</h3>` so you don’t have to worry about adding the id yourself.
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> There are downsides to this approach if we do it - in particular it’s difficult to handle headings with the same name. There is [more detail here](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/feature-request-automatically-generated-ids-for-headers/115) if you are interested in reading more.

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