diff --git a/app/components/Editor.js b/app/components/Editor.js
index cdba893a..73739604 100644
--- a/app/components/Editor.js
+++ b/app/components/Editor.js
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ class Editor extends React.Component<PropsWithRef> {
     return result.url;
   };
 
-  onClickLink = (href: string) => {
+  onClickLink = (href: string, event: MouseEvent) => {
     // on page hash
     if (href[0] === "#") {
       window.location.href = href;
       return;
     }
 
-    if (isInternalUrl(href)) {
+    if (isInternalUrl(href) && !event.metaKey && !event.shiftKey) {
       // relative
       let navigateTo = href;
 
diff --git a/app/components/HoverPreview.js b/app/components/HoverPreview.js
index 198f5eeb..62496e83 100644
--- a/app/components/HoverPreview.js
+++ b/app/components/HoverPreview.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import * as React from "react";
 import { Portal } from "react-portal";
 import styled from "styled-components";
 import { fadeAndSlideIn } from "shared/styles/animations";
-import { parseDocumentSlugFromUrl } from "shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug";
+import parseDocumentSlug from "shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug";
 import DocumentsStore from "stores/DocumentsStore";
 import HoverPreviewDocument from "components/HoverPreviewDocument";
 import isInternalUrl from "utils/isInternalUrl";
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ type Props = {
 };
 
 function HoverPreviewInternal({ node, documents, onClose, event }: Props) {
-  const slug = parseDocumentSlugFromUrl(node.href);
+  const slug = parseDocumentSlug(node.href);
 
   const [isVisible, setVisible] = React.useState(false);
   const timerClose = React.useRef();
diff --git a/app/components/HoverPreviewDocument.js b/app/components/HoverPreviewDocument.js
index b5e9a2c7..54fc497a 100644
--- a/app/components/HoverPreviewDocument.js
+++ b/app/components/HoverPreviewDocument.js
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { inject, observer } from "mobx-react";
 import * as React from "react";
 import { Link } from "react-router-dom";
 import styled from "styled-components";
-import { parseDocumentSlugFromUrl } from "shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug";
+import parseDocumentSlug from "shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug";
 import DocumentsStore from "stores/DocumentsStore";
 import DocumentMetaWithViews from "components/DocumentMetaWithViews";
 import Editor from "components/Editor";
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ type Props = {
 };
 
 function HoverPreviewDocument({ url, documents, children }: Props) {
-  const slug = parseDocumentSlugFromUrl(url);
+  const slug = parseDocumentSlug(url);
 
   documents.prefetchDocument(slug, {
     prefetch: true,
diff --git a/app/scenes/Document/components/DataLoader.js b/app/scenes/Document/components/DataLoader.js
index 9b2f2abd..5cc625b7 100644
--- a/app/scenes/Document/components/DataLoader.js
+++ b/app/scenes/Document/components/DataLoader.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { observer, inject } from "mobx-react";
 import * as React from "react";
 import type { RouterHistory, Match } from "react-router-dom";
 import { withRouter } from "react-router-dom";
+import parseDocumentSlug from "shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug";
 import DocumentsStore from "stores/DocumentsStore";
 import PoliciesStore from "stores/PoliciesStore";
 import RevisionsStore from "stores/RevisionsStore";
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ import Loading from "./Loading";
 import SocketPresence from "./SocketPresence";
 import { type LocationWithState } from "types";
 import { NotFoundError, OfflineError } from "utils/errors";
+import isInternalUrl from "utils/isInternalUrl";
 import { matchDocumentEdit, updateDocumentUrl } from "utils/routeHelpers";
 
 type Props = {|
@@ -70,6 +72,26 @@ class DataLoader extends React.Component<Props> {
   }
 
   onSearchLink = async (term: string) => {
+    if (isInternalUrl(term)) {
+      // search for exact internal document
+      const slug = parseDocumentSlug(term);
+      try {
+        const document = await this.props.documents.fetch(slug);
+        return [
+          {
+            title: document.title,
+            url: document.url,
+          },
+        ];
+      } catch (error) {
+        // NotFoundError could not find document for slug
+        if (!(error instanceof NotFoundError)) {
+          throw error;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
+    // default search for anything that doesn't look like a URL
     const results = await this.props.documents.search(term);
 
     return results
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 52d45f95..a61be4a8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
     "react-portal": "^4.0.0",
     "react-router-dom": "^5.1.2",
     "react-waypoint": "^9.0.2",
-    "rich-markdown-editor": "^11.0.0-1",
+    "rich-markdown-editor": "^11.0.0-4",
     "semver": "^7.3.2",
     "sequelize": "^6.3.4",
     "sequelize-cli": "^6.2.0",
diff --git a/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.js b/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.js
index 19e9ed6b..7cc5b72f 100644
--- a/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.js
+++ b/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.js
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 // @flow
 
-export function parseDocumentSlugFromUrl(url: string) {
+export default function parseDocumentSlug(url: string) {
   let parsed;
-  try {
-    parsed = new URL(url);
-  } catch (err) {
-    return;
+  if (url[0] === "/") {
+    parsed = url;
+  } else {
+    try {
+      parsed = new URL(url).pathname;
+    } catch (err) {
+      return;
+    }
   }
 
-  return parsed.pathname.replace(/^\/doc\//, "");
+  return parsed.replace(/^\/doc\//, "");
 }
diff --git a/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.test.js b/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..918d55a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/shared/utils/parseDocumentSlug.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+// @flow
+import parseDocumentSlug from "./parseDocumentSlug";
+
+describe("#parseDocumentSlug", () => {
+  it("should work with fully qualified url", () => {
+    expect(
+      parseDocumentSlug("http://example.com/doc/my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV")
+    ).toEqual("my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV");
+  });
+
+  it("should work with subdomain qualified url", () => {
+    expect(
+      parseDocumentSlug("http://mywiki.getoutline.com/doc/my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV")
+    ).toEqual("my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV");
+  });
+
+  it("should work with path", () => {
+    expect(parseDocumentSlug("/doc/my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV")).toEqual(
+      "my-doc-y4j4tR4UuV"
+    );
+  });
+});
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 04ad34c3..82275f95 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -9806,10 +9806,10 @@ retry-as-promised@^3.2.0:
   dependencies:
     any-promise "^1.3.0"
 
-rich-markdown-editor@^11.0.0-1:
-  version "11.0.0-1"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/rich-markdown-editor/-/rich-markdown-editor-11.0.0-1.tgz#d21f0a62153bf8b94dc82652f5c1cbbd861eb5c8"
-  integrity sha512-XUhsojdDsfKzOMLmIE5E8Pl6lNYWjlHqBpnDEa21oFZE0byFNoDTK84dcJg4ErNrk8OZqFuDjZVBeglgIzrtnQ==
+rich-markdown-editor@^11.0.0-4:
+  version "11.0.0-4"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/rich-markdown-editor/-/rich-markdown-editor-11.0.0-4.tgz#b65f5b03502d70a2b2bbea5c916c23b071f4bab6"
+  integrity sha512-+llzd8Plxzsc/jJ8RwtMSV5QIpxpZdM5nQejG/SLe/lfqHNOFNnIiOszSPERIcULLxsLdMT5Ajz+Yr5PXPicOQ==
   dependencies:
     copy-to-clipboard "^3.0.8"
     lodash "^4.17.11"