I think the thing that roam does that none of the competitors that have
arisen can do yet is this: when backlink references are displayed, they
display the entire subtree of the node that references the page. For
example, if I have [[Page 1]] and [[Page 2]], and on Page 1 I write the
following:
- stuff
- [[page 2]]
- more stuff
- even more stuff
- stuff stuff
- extra stuff
- stuff
Then on page 2 at the bottom the following will be displayed:
- [[page 2]]
- more stuff
- even more stuff
- stuff stuff
(Though with the stuff under the [[page 2]] node collapsed). This
essentially allows *writing to one page directly from another page*. For
example, I can link [[Page 2]] from my daily notes, and write everything I
want to appear on Page 2 under that bullet, and it's as if I'm writing it
on Page 2 (in fact the content is even editable from Page 2). This is what
enables the sort of workflow Andy Matuschak describes here:
https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1190102757430063106, i.e.
building up pages implicitly by linking to them a lot, even before they
have anything properly on them. Even the contextual backlinks that Stroll
provides don't allow for this level of automatic transclusion.
However, Saq's new Stream plugin might change this. I'm not sure how Stroll
and Stream work under the hood. But if Stroll's backlinks feature had an
option to essentially transclude the backlinks as a Stream, then precisely
this functionality would be achieved. I don't have the technical chops to
make this work right now, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of
those who do (@David Gifford, @Saq), in case somebody wanted to do it at
some point. In any case, I think the Stroll and Stream plugins are amazing
already, and just wanted to point out this way in which they could be even
more amazing if they were brought together.
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