# Backlink/x-Callback should open the note

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/backlink-x-callback-should-open-the-note/16021>\
**Category:** Bear Web\
**Tags:** features\
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/backlink-x-callback-should-open-the-note/16021 "2025-04-02T21:28:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![TheBrawnyMan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/thebrawnyman/32/6019_2.png) [@TheBrawnyMan](https://community.bear.app/u/TheBrawnyMan)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/backlink-x-callback-should-open-the-note/16021/1 "2025-04-02T21:28:13Z")

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**Operation system** :  
macOS 15.3.2

## **Web Browser** : Safari 18.3.1

## Bug report

**What were you doing** :  
I clicked on a Backlink/x-callback to another note in my collection

**What feature did you use** :  
Backlink/x-callback links

**What happened** :  
When I clicked the browser attempted to open the x-callback custom URL handler in a new browser tab.

**What did you expect to happen** :  
The note in my collection to open as it would in the desktop app

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**Feedback:**  
I understand the utility of the x-callback url custom url handler, and that you could have OTHER apps that are listening so you may not want to override them, but in the case of handlers that Bear uses (like `open-note`) It would be nice if the web version of Bear recognized that the URL is a link to some other note Bear knows about, and simply have it open that other note instead. This is probably tricky because you would need to replace the URL on note load with one that links into another document in the app but NOT in a way that changes the contents of the note so it still works in the native app.

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**Author:** ![bru](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/bru/32/179_2.png) [@bru](https://community.bear.app/u/bru)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/backlink-x-callback-should-open-the-note/16021/2 "2025-04-07T14:09:15Z")

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Hi and thanks for the feedback. We’ll consider how to proceed in the case of x-callback urls. In the current iteration, BearWeb is not expected to support the use of x-callback-urls.