Link from blog post to page not in recently viewed list, and edit link text -- in confluence cloud

Question

I am a long-time Confluence user but we just recently migrated from "server" to "cloud".  I'm finding many frustrating differences and shortcomings.

I have always used blog posts to keep a daily record of my work.  I make heavy use of links to reference pages elsewhere in our wiki.  In the cloud version, I'm finding two frustrating things:

First, I can't link to files or pages or anything that's not in my "recently viewed" list.  Here is what it looks like:

Next, if I DO insert something from my recently viewed, I can't modify the displayed text.  Here is what the procedure looks like from a regular (non-blog) page:

I have thousands of blog entries dating back to 2007.  I'd love to figure this one out.

Rory Apperson · Answer

Thanks, I've read those but I still don't have an answer.  How do I link to pages that aren't in my "recently viewed" list?  How do I search for other pages in our Confluence site while creating a link?

Rory Apperson · Answer

Thanks for the reply Diego.  So how do you link to pages that aren't in your "recently viewed" list?

Diego_88dj6o · Answer

Hello there Rory!
This new behaviour you are facing is part of the new editor. The links now work like this:

Links: The link modal has been replaced with an in-line link field. Select the text you want to link, click the icon from the toolbar, and paste in the URL you want to link to.

You can take a further look into this here:

Confluence Editing Improvements

There are some differences between Confluence Cloud and Server, you may want to take a look here:

Atlassian Cloud vs. Server: Features and use cases