I’d like the “Backlinks in document” to preserve my ideal settings similar to the way search does. For example, I prefer collapsed and sort by modified descending.
Proposed solution
If I set “Backlinks in document” to be collapsed, then ideally it should preserve that setting until I change it.
Current workaround (optional)
I need to set my ideal settings for backlinks on every launch of Obsidian.
If you think that makes more sense, then no objection. I think my request solves the specific problem of the linked post, but in a general way that solves other variations. Also, it’s congruent with how they solved the same problem with search results.
Obsidian Plugin creator @NothingIsLost created a cool plugin that allows you to store preferences within query blocks. Someone requested a similar feature for “Backlinks in Document” here and the dev is considering implementing it!
I have exactly the same problem.
I use backlinks in document, because I prefer to see the structure-view in the side-pane, and it’s somehow annoying to click a hundred times a day to collapse the lists, especially in my project-notes.
Is it possible to make the backlinks collapsed by default?
The default sorting by filename of backlinks in document does feel a bit counter-intuitive. having the links sorted by reverse chronological order—and even better, being able to choose the sort order and save it—makes more sense from a contextual, note-taking point of view.
+1, there’s some gentle pressure towards using Dataview or other plugins instead of the native in-document backlinks, due to backlinks having a few bits of friction like this one. There’s a lot of potential there!