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Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏

@Conaw

Mar 20, 2020

Control-shift-o to open a backlink in the sidebar for

@RoamResearch

Don't lose object permanance

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

· Dec 5, 2019

Backlinks are a weak peripheral vision, and they help, but they’re generally about switching the one note you have open, not an effective means of sense-making across many notes. Contextual backlinks help, but if you navigate, you lose object permanence.

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The sidebar is a good solution to this problem for a stack size of one. I'd love to see good approaches for larger stack sizes and non-stack-ish browsing patterns. I've been struggling to find relevant prior art, other than images like this classic:

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Federated wiki's horizontal scroll is interesting, have seen similar stuff in your work Tree sheets comes to mind

@yoshikischmitz

has some cool ideas about synching multiple devices for peripheral vision Like multiple monitors but autosynching

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Not sure about prior art but I've thought a bit about keeping prior entries in the stack visible via an expanding browsing UI. Feels reassuring to always have your history visible, so you can reference earlier entries without undoing your navigation. figma.com/file/NfvlUAjlt