Also worth noting that all tiddlers already show backlinks in their toolbar menu > more (i.e the down arrow) > info > Backlinks tab
<:-) On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:33:53 AM UTC+1 ludwa6 wrote: > Thanks, @Mark : This works great in context of a single page... Also > site-wide, in context of a small site where i've added to ViewTemplate per > your suggestion. I would like to extend the latter case to a larger site > with many links, but i should do some testing first, as i don't know what > impact it will have on performance. I do however know that i've got a > Stroll-themed wiki on my desktop that has some hundreds of content tiddler > already with backlinks integrated, and performance hit is not (yet) an > issue. > > As to your Q about intent: It is to weave wiki with the quality of > Intertwingularity <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertwingularity>, > essentially. That was the quality that i found so compelling about Ward's > Portland > Pattern Repository <http://c2.com/ppr/> back in the day (well before > Wikipedia appeared on the scene), where backlinks was for me an essential > part of the experience -the only way i know how to preserve the context > that is needed to make sense of linked content. > On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 5:12:11 AM UTC Mark S. wrote: > >> It depends what you want to do. Any tiddler with this macro in it: >> >> <<list-links "[all[current]backlinks[]]">> >> >> will return a list of all the tiddlers that link to it. You can put that >> into a tiddler, tag it $:/tags/ViewTemplate and then every tiddler will >> list it's backlinks. But that's going to use a lot of computing power. So >> it all depends what you are intending to do. >> >> On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 8:09:13 PM UTC-8 ludwa6 wrote: >> >>> Q: Is there a canonical method to implement this feature? The way >>> Stroll implements backlinks works for me, but i would like to isolate that >>> feature for implementation in a standard wiki. What would be the simplest >>> way, i wonder? >>> >>> /walt >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f8461c68-1ab3-44f4-bd0c-93d52f64b9f2n%40googlegroups.com.
