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My life would probably be much easier if I could get into using

. Seems like super-solid product, extremely performant, tons of very interesting plugins, nice community. But I just can't... Even with the nice LYT style, here's my backlinks for Andy M in Roam/Obs:

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I wonder if the issue here could be at least partially resolved by an improved userland backlinks plugin.

7:45 PM · Jan 12, 2022Twitter Web App

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(But I recognize, too, that a lot of why the Roam presentation is better here is that the backlink is embedded in outline, rather than prose, structure. It'd be difficult to duplicate the breadcrumbs' clarity in prose.)

Tim Lloyd

@tmllyd

Jan 12

Maybe could sidestep/ignore that problem. Obs has outlines. Can render bullet points with indentation based on plain text control chars. Could backlink breadcrumbs not be similarly determined only for markdown lists?

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I mean all of the data is there, so technically possible. Logseq is also backed by the same Markdown files, but they parse them into a Datascript db similar to Roam. You can parse/index the MD and represent it, not sure how much work it would be.

Taylor Hadden

@Cptn_ChillPill

Jan 12

From my experience, not that bad, though I haven't tested anything at a large scale yet.