Show backlinks in Daily Note
planned
Josh Knowles
With the focus on living in daily notes, it’d be helpful to be able to see other backlinks to a given subject.
Right now you can hover over a reference and it provides a mini-note summary, but if all context lives in backlinks this becomes less useful.
Here’s a few options we posted in Discord…
Option 1:
Perhaps updating the right-sidebar where the “Outgoing links & Tags” are listed to embed other backlinks to same note would help?
Option 2:
If my daily note has a top-level bullet of "Call with [[person]] of [[company]] re [[project]]" then as long as my cursor is focused on that line, or any sub-bullets of it, bring up a panel at the bottom of the screen with backlink references for each of the Notes mentioned that has back references. That way I can stay on the Daily Note, take notes, but have all the context of the related notes on screen at the same time. Basically just copy the split-pane UI you have on an individual Note, and have it dynamically update (and allow showing multiple of them) on the Daily.
Alex MacCaw
planned
Josh Knowles
Alex MacCaw I see your note that this shipped, but I don’t actually see this functionality in the app. I’ve tried “Option 2”, putting text cursor on the line, but I don’t see a panel as described in the feature request.
What specifically shipped?
Alex MacCaw
Josh Knowles: Whoops - my mistake. We shipped incoming backlinks under daily notes. I now see this was a different request.
Alex MacCaw
complete
We have shipped this now! :)
Alex MacCaw
I like option 2!