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I want to combine three existing projects into one by importing two of the smaller projects into the third larger one. I don't want to use "merging" because I want to easily link to topics between all three projects. However, I'm also not keen on "global project linking" because I don't care about maintaining the links to the two source projects once everything is combined. Every time I make a change to an imported file, I would need to remove the link, which would be tedious. So here's my question: Is there a way to combine projects without using 'global project linking'?

The two ways to combine projects are project imports (global project linking) and merging. If you have a number of links between projects, they're much easier to set up and maintain when using a project import. Regarding changing files - instead of removing the link, change the file in the original project, unless you actually want the topics to be different (and unlinked).

Alternatively, if your projects are quite integrated with each other, then would it not make sense to just combine them into one single project? Is there any reason why they're separate?

Use target conditions for the project (=conditions used in the target to exclude/include files and folders).
Apply more than one condition to those files or folders that are shared.
But be careful: Include ALWAYS overrules any exclude!!!