Create tasks or events from related records at the lowest level in the relationship. For example, if you have a task associated with an Opportunity, create the task from within the Opportunity you are working on, rather than creating it within the Account or a Contact associated with the Opportunity.
Not only will all linking be automatically populated this way, but you will also reduce the chance of relating to the wrong record.
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