- Follow tag to its pages.
- See a page's tags.
- Rename a tag.
- Filter with tags.
links == tags
I love Roam, and I don't think its links are "bi-directional," and I don't think they are the killer feature (ask me what is). #roamcult
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I have another link hot take. They're just really crappy search. They're an exact string match kind of search. You can search in the search bar, or you can create a page as a kind of saved search that shows you "linked" and "unlinked" references.
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I think that one could replace wiki links with a much more useful search feature and get probably 90%+ of the same value you get from wiki links. At the same time I think links could be better.
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Imagine a "related blocks" feature. If you had real search (like TF/IDF, stemming, etc.) and you could use a block as a query. Roam would break it into search terms and find blocks in your database that were related. Sounds more useful than wiki links (née exact phrase search)
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A wiki link is really a transclusion of a special block, the title of a page. Transclusion can be clunky depending on how composable the units are. A chunk of prose is context dependent and transcluding it can make disjointed prose. see:
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Ironically, 's notes can sometimes feel a little disjointed, because his links are also transcluding a note's title. Probably this disjointedness occurs because he refactored notes after creating links, but still...
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Totally. I’ve started basically treating note titles as black-box proper nouns, not really worrying about their grammatical integration into the sentence. But it’s often disjointed to read!