Anchor / Bookmark Support

[freb]

It should be possible to link to a specific location within a page/document. This feature is hugely important for creating an index or reference table. Currently it is only possible to link to headings in a document.

Ideally the anchor or bookmark location could be named for easy discovery later (such as is done in word or with an HTML id attribute). Good Docs supports bookmarks but makes you select the target using surrounding text.

My specific use case is for creating a reference table in our compliance manual. We cannot move our manual to Gitbook because heading links are not granular enough. Our auditors require a reference to the text which satisfies each requirement.

In my custom markdown implementation I'm repurposing standard links as follows:

[Invisble text of anchor](+bookmarkname)
[Displayed text of link](#bookmarkname)

But there have been other syntax proposals.

[sarahf16]

This would be really useful for us too. To get around this I have added annotations with the information from each section I am linking to instead but this is very time-consuming and not the best solution.