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Feature: Backlinks #253

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bodby opened this issue Sep 6, 2024 · 1 comment
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Feature: Backlinks #253

bodby opened this issue Sep 6, 2024 · 1 comment
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bodby commented Sep 6, 2024

Is your feature request related to a problem (not a bug)? Please describe.
From what I can tell, there are no backlinks for notes; I have to manually add them.

The solution you'd like
The ability to show backlinks either:

  • At the bottom of the note.
  • Using a function/command to detect them and add them as links into the current note.
  • A special keymap that opens the link under the cursor and adds a backlink (preferred, easiest)

There should be the ability to set the links' preview names to the first alias (a YAML property I have in every note) or the first header rather than just the filename.

Alternative solutions you've considered
Remembering to add a note to a MOC every time I add a tag to it, and the same with individual notes.

Additional context
The ability to choose the first header or first YAML alias property in a file and set the preview text of the link would be to avoid unreadable backlinks like this:

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Very sorry if you got multiple notifs or emails; I edited this like 5 times because it was completely unreadable.

@bodby bodby added the enhancement New feature or request label Sep 6, 2024
@bodby bodby changed the title Feature: [DESCRIPTION] Feature: Backlinks and MOC generation Sep 6, 2024
@bodby bodby changed the title Feature: Backlinks and MOC generation Feature: Backlinks Sep 7, 2024
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jakewvincent commented Sep 8, 2024

Hi @bodby, thanks for the suggestion! I was playing around with Obsidian recently and noticed the backlinks feature, thinking it would be nice to implement it in mkdnflow. I don't have an immediate plan to implement it but would like to, so we'll keep this open to track it :)

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