2020 June update (Backlink, new theme and font)

Thank you, Stuart. Works great.

Well, I know what you mean, however because I use unique emojis to indicate contexts I can just do a search for the emoji like with tags (before I started playing with pages I was just using emojis, not tags, and used searches regularly). At the moment that would be a bit annoying because of the length of the links - the long links is the biggest limitation for me, I think roam doesnā€™t have this problem.

Aside from this, the page is just a bonus. For example you could have the pageā€™s title be a tag (e.g. have a #athome page), then every linked item would automatically have both that tag and a link to the page ā€¦ Again just the link lengths in searches would be the annoyance.

Of course roam automatically makes tags into pages, I suppose what Iā€™m suggesting here is that you could manually make all your tags a page (or the ones where itā€™s useful to have that additional feature that pages bring bolted on).

Edit the next day: Actually I just noticed than when you run a search e.g. for ā–øšŸ’» in my example, the search shows the unexpanded link e.g.

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So that works just as well as tags and you could do intersectional searches no problem e.g.

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Should be fixed now.

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@Erica Thanks for the Backlinks in the desktop version :slight_smile: Nice.

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I think automatically making each tag into an editable page would be quite doable in dynalist and would improve functionality a lot. that actually sounds like a good idea to me- then eventually we could move away from tags altogether and just use pages with backlinks instead.

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Mmm, obsidian has a default place where new attachments go, there could be a place for tag pages like that