Any plans on supporting backlinks?

[NightMachinery]

Backlinks are the best idea of org-roam, IMHO. Any plans on supporting them as a first-class citizen?

[danymat]

That can be a great idea, that can be made in parallel of Zettelkasten note taking.

I don't know however how backlinks should be used/displayed in order to be usefull. Do you have any ideas ?

[NightMachinery]

I personally use https://github.com/toshism/org-super-links ; Any header that has links to it, will have an ID in its PROPERTIES drawer (so no link rot), and backlinks are automatically added to the BACKLINKS drawer of the source heading.

[danymat]

I personally use https://github.com/toshism/org-super-links ; Any header that has links to it, will have an ID in its PROPERTIES drawer (so no link rot), and backlinks are automatically added to the BACKLINKS drawer of the source heading.

So if I understand correctly, a drawer is like a small view where you can do some actions too?

[NightMachinery]

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danymat
** commented on Sep 19, 2021, 1:48 PM GMT+4:30:

I personally use toshism/org-super-links ; Any header that has links to it, will have an ID in its PROPERTIES drawer (so no link rot), and backlinks are automatically added to the BACKLINKS drawer of the source heading.

So if I understand correctly, a drawer is like a small view where you can do some actions too?

No, a drawer is just a block that is usually hidden and not exported:

* *links*
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       b2912b13-562b-42ea-8706-0b38c0e1502c
:END:


** [[id:16fc5a7e-b439-4f84-9a53-bbd5112524d0][wow]]

* *wow*
:PROPERTIES:
:ID:       16fc5a7e-b439-4f84-9a53-bbd5112524d0
:END:
:BACKLINKS:
[[id:b2912b13-562b-42ea-8706-0b38c0e1502c][links]]
:END: