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Devine Lu Linvega

@noa I often end up on a page and knowing where it is referenced not only gives me context on what this page is actually documenting, but it usually sends me to places that gives me a better overview of how this page fits in the big picture of the site.

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Devine Lu Linvega

@noa I was just on a stub page that was hyper-focused on a specific thing, and I was like, what even is that for. Clicked a few of the backlinks, I knew instantly where that was used for.

brennen

@neauoire @noa totally agree. i've spent a lot of time hacking backlinks into whatever i'm using as a personal wiki (vimwiki these days)

for me, backlinks expose a lot of the real magic of a hypertext - and the way that a link is (or can be, at least) functionally the same as a tag.

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