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With the Backlinks plugin, you can see all the backlinks for the active note.
A backlink for a note is a link from another note to that note. In the following example, the "Three laws of motion" note contains a link to the "Isaac Newton" note. The corresponding backlink would link from "Isaac Newton" back to "Three laws of motion".
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laws((Three laws of motion))
newton((Isaac Newton))
laws --link--> newton
newton --backlink--> laws
Backlinks can be useful to find notes that reference the note you're writing. Just imagine if you could list the backlinks for any website on the internet!
The backlinks pane
You can see all the backlinks for the active note from the backlinks pane. The backlinks pane has two collapsible sections: Linked mentions and Unlinked mentions.
- Linked mentions are backlinks to the notes that contain an internal link to the active note.
- Unlinked mentions are backlinks to any unlinked occurrence of the name of the active note.
The backlinks pane have the following options:
- Collapse results toggles whether to expand each note to display the mentions in it.
- Show more context toggles whether to truncate or display the full paragraph that contains the mention.
- Change sort order determines how to sort the mentions.
- Show search filter toggles a text field that lets you filter the mentions. For more information on how to build a search query, refer to Search.
Tip: If you want to see backlinks for multiple notes at the same time, you can enable Backlink in document under plugin options, to display backlinks in the same pane as your note.
View backlinks for a note
To view the backlinks for the active note, click the Backlinks (link and arrow icon) tab in the right side bar.
Note: If you can't see the Backlinks tab, you can make it visible by opening the Command palette and running the Backlinks: Show backlinks pane command.