Currently, each preview in the backlinks panel is limited to ~20 words. Generally, the paragraph that I include the backlink in is a summary that provides context for the link, which makes looking through my Backlinks panel for later research much more streamlined. However, my summaries often exceed…

The “More Context” button might give you some of what you need: [image]

Thanks for reply. Obsidian show three lines below or above [[links]]. This is insufficient. If i give links at top of a para (my Zettlekasten) than i only see three lines below which is not sufficient(worse if i have four lines of [[links]] than i cant see a word but linkages). I need to open that …

Well, I’m just a fellow user, so I can’t make any changes to Obsidian. :slight_smile: But I agree that the option to show more context is a good idea.

Page preview hovers in the Backlinks was suggested here: Page Preview Plugin - show previews on backlink panel

Going back to this discussion. I think since we have moved to remark js. It’s easier to find the paragraph/list with backlinks now than before. I think backlinks should show the full paragraph or list and its subitems instead of just the surrounding texts. This would make it more immersive and force…

you can increase the context by clicking the middle icon

I also need this function urgently. If I can display the content of the reverse link completely, it will be very useful for the actual work, data arrangement and editing

It still truncates longer lists and paragraphs. Also adds other texts from previous paragraph/list. Overall it doesn’t feel as clean and as informative as the way Roam does its backlinks.

In daily note I created notes under several topics like [[Reading]], and when we followed the link to [[Reading]], we could only see a blank page with a list of Days in “linked mentions” which gave no any information on what we wrote in [[Reading]] section each day. It will be quite useful if we ca…

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Longer previews for backlinks panel

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WhiteNoise February 5, 2021, 1:06am 22

I am going to close the FR because it was addressed with the more context button.
It seems that some of you are asking for this instead.