# Linking an existing todo from Things doesn't show the name, only ID

**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/linking-an-existing-todo-from-things-doesnt-show-the-name-only-id/968
**Category:** Discussion & Help
**Created:** [November 11, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/linking-an-existing-todo-from-things-doesnt-show-the-name-only-id/968 "2019-11-11T10:06:56Z")
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### Author: ![zeitgen](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/87869e/32.png) [@zeitgen](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/zeitgen)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2019, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/linking-an-existing-todo-from-things-doesnt-show-the-name-only-id/968/4 "2019-11-13T08:42:50Z")

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Wow, thank you so much guys for looking into this!  
TLDR: I’m all set now, case solved 🙂

> [@grahamb](#):
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> steps you follow are:

Exactly these steps, yes.

> [@grahamb](#):
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> Do you have any other utilities which modify your clipboard?

Yes, I use a clipboard manager. It turned out to be the culprit - as soon as I’ve disabled its auto-transformation stuff and added Hook to excluded apps just to be safe - everything started working just as it should.

> [@LucB](#):
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> I’ve updated the help page

Maybe it’s worth adding some note on using third party clipboard managers there, too. A funny thing is that I’ve already had exact the same situation with some different app, and spent unreasonable amount of time investigating 😅

Many thanks again!

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