# FR: Option to drag and drop an external file as a file link

**URL:** <https://community.bear.app/t/fr-option-to-drag-and-drop-an-external-file-as-a-file-link/19533>\
**Category:** Lettera feedback\
**Created:** [July 6, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/fr-option-to-drag-and-drop-an-external-file-as-a-file-link/19533 "2026-07-06T02:56:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam.lewallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@sam.lewallen](https://community.bear.app/u/sam.lewallen)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 2:56am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/fr-option-to-drag-and-drop-an-external-file-as-a-file-link/19533/1 "2026-07-06T02:56:21Z")

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When dragging and dropping a file from Finder into an editor, could we have the option of inserting a file:// link to the original file, in addition to the current behavior (duplicating the file into the note folder)? By holding option when dropping the file, for example.

Personally this is a big part of my workflow whenever I need to write something while referring to multiple PDFs in different places in Finder (so when I return to the note I can quickly access all of them).

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**Author:** ![matteo](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.bear.app/matteo/32/21_2.png) [@matteo](https://community.bear.app/u/matteo)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:31am UTC](https://community.bear.app/t/fr-option-to-drag-and-drop-an-external-file-as-a-file-link/19533/2 "2026-07-06T08:31:55Z")

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Hi Sam,

yes, the drag’n drop will be soon the focus of many changes and we’ll be providing customizable behaviours 🙂