What am I missing about Obsdian and its ability to connect ideas?

[ryanjamurphy]

@Fovea

The concept being, your aggregating/viewing the all the actual writing , the real meat of your use for this backlink, in a single view. Not just seeing a list of where you can find them - which right now just functions as an slightly enhanced index/search.

Thanks, I think I understand. So this request is the same as the following?

Fully transclude backlinks

Currently, the backlinks sidebar only shows an unformatted snippet of the text around the link, forcing you to click through to really read it. Better would be for it to function like Roam, where the complete line, and any nested below it, appear in the backlink list This is definitely trickier than Roam, since Obsidian is not a true outliner, but some way to read the full context of backlinks is definitely needed. Maybe if the link is in a bulleted or numbered list it shows everything nested…

Also, I like your tag suggestion —you should make that a Feature Request topic!