Backlinks panel does not show context

[madacol]

This is the sample image in the README.md about backlinks

I think I see some context surrounding the reference.

Is that supported and it's now broken? or that was never implemented?

[svsool]

Hi,

It works as designed. You can open help folder in VSCode and backlinks panel for this file, it should look the same as in the screenshot.

Yet, I agree that backlinks logic is not ideal right now. I think better logic would be to use outline aka breadcrumbs for every link, for instance imagine you have the following structure:

# Books

- [[Book Genre 1]]
  - Book Name 1
    - [[Read Next]]

It would be nice if description of [[Read Next]] link in backlinks panel would contain Books > [[Book Genre 1]] > Book Name 1 information providing more context about ascendent / descendent hierarchy where link is used.

Another dumber way to show surrounding context is to configure amount of lines that should be shown before / after then link similar to how grep -C num works.

I think providing descent backlinks context is an interesting and challenging problem to solve.

I'm interested in hearing more ideas and use cases.

[madacol]

Ahhh, I understand now, it only shows the context that's after the reference. All my examples only have context before it, that's why they're always empty.

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I don't have any strong opinions about how backlinks should work. I'm new to this note-taking system and I'm using it for a specific project.

I'm still figuring this out