This is the simplest solution. I’ve been playing around with this solution and I think that it is enough for the use case I’m expecting. However there is only a single drawback: Back links functionality seems to not work.
Given this scenario:
Topic 1 references topic 2
Case 1: Normal usage with typical public topics
The user is reading topic 1 and sees a link to topic 2. So the user clicks on the link and goes to read topic 2. At the end of the first message of topic 2 there is a list of links to other topics where topic 2 is referenced, so one of the links in that list is topic 1.
Case 2: Private messages
The user creates topic 2 as a private message to itself. Later it creates topic 1 as a private message to itself as well and makes a reference to topic 2. First of all the linking tool to insert links does not take into account private messages. This is understandable. However once the link is inserted, in topic 2 the list of topics topic 2 is referenced from, doesn’t appear.
This issue is not critical at all although I’d love it to work. Is there in the config any setting that allows it?
I try to avoid plugins, themes and everything that it is not stock because at some point the compatibility breaks. I’m a software engineer and this problem is more common than it should. So I prefer to go as simple as possible, so I think that @Jagster and me are in the same boat:
Summary
PMs to themselves is the simplest solution with 1 big drawback: lack of back linking functionality. And 2 minor issues:
- Linking tool does not display other private topics
- The PMs are listed in the “sent” directory and not in the inbox.
There is a way to fix this? Otherwise it is not a big deal.
Thank you guys.