Is there a way to move up and down in the hierarchy? If not, maybe there should be?

[alienbogart]

Brief Abstract

There is no practical to navigate hierarchically. I think there should be.

Proposed Implementation (if any)

Commands such org-roam-forward and org-roam-backward, or better yet org-roam-up and org-roam-down, similar to what we have on Info-mode

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[JeffreyBenjaminBrown]

You can navigate headlines in org-roam just like in org-mode; in fact, org-roam offloads all that work to org-mode. The keyboard shortcuts are C-c n (next headline), C-c p (previous), C-c u (up). There's no down, as it doesn't remember where you last were.

The graph of links between files and headlines is (probably) not a tree, so there's no natural way to define next, previous, up or down.

It would be nice if there was a "back" shortcut, much like web browsers offer. Until someone implements that, though, there's always buffer mode.

[alienbogart]

I see. That would be nice indeed. I'm using "previous/next-buffer for now". Thanks!

[zaeph]

Linked to #531 and #118. I've worked on jump-history in the past, and I could implement something rudimentary, but I think we've got other priorities for the moment.

[samspills]

I don't know anything about jump-history but you could also use org-mark-ring-goto to quickly jump back to previous positions. The only caveat is that this will jump to previous positions within an org-file, not just between different files. Still it's pretty useful for when I'm navigating through backlinks and stuff. If that would be useful, I could put together a quick PR that basically creates a function org-roam-goto-previous-position that just calls org-mark-ring-goto.