My conclusion <https://zettelkasten.sorenbjornstad.com/#NecessityOfBacklinks> is that backlinks are not necessary, but they're also very helpful in many applications (and really not that hard to do right if you're building a notes application). I do think that saying the "thing that Roam got right" is bidirectional linking is pretty silly, though, especially when they go on to talk about this being the core of a "graph-based" system...have they ever heard of directed graphs? Evidence that being able to follow the links in both directions is the most important key to building good notes seems nonexistent to me.
IMO the key to Roam/TW/other powerful notes systems is (1) *modeling* (ability to lay out and relate individual notes however makes sense) and (2) *reuse* (not limited to just linking between things and transcluding entire chunks of text, but getting smaller pieces of text, using templates, etc.). Linking does help with both of those things, but you could imagine other ways to achieve them. On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 at 7:54:46 AM UTC-6 si wrote: > TiddlyTweeter wrote: > >> Right. Sometimes they are useful--basically "going back-and-forth". >> But I think the real use cases are quite limited. >> > > I disagree, this is a very useful application of backlinks in my opinion: > https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Backlinks_can_be_used_to_implicitly_define_nodes_in_knowledge_management_systems > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7f629fd8-b929-43df-bb7e-05d477c0d885n%40googlegroups.com.
