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This is amusing to read because I just started learning org-mode the other day and ran into these immediately while trying to figure out how to link to a bulletpoint in a list later in the document (couldn't figure it out but it ended up being unnecessary in the end, so... progress).


To quickly link to bullet points, just use [[*My bullet point]] (if you omit the *, it may still work but Org also finds non-heading elements like table names with the same text).

Personally, I like to create custom ids for bullet points so that I can easily change the text in the bullet point later without breaking my links:

  * My bullet point
  :PROPERTIES:
  :CUSTOM_ID: foo
  :END:
This is easier with C-c C-x p (org-set-property).

Elsewhere, I can just write [[#foo]] to create a link to that bullet.




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