Ahh... Following your breadcrumbs, @Mat, only now i see the "References" tab (a synonym for Backlinks, it appears) -coupla clicks away from view, but it'll do for when one really needs to discover context. If i could pop that view w/ a simple key-combo, i'd call it the best of all possible worlds!
On Sunday, February 21, 2021 at 11:36:22 AM UTC Mat wrote: > 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/997b9005-e1a7-4408-a7bb-93b88256189en%40googlegroups.com.
