39 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
39 lines
1.5 KiB
Markdown
---
|
|
description: A backlink reference showing everywhere a page is linked from.
|
|
tags: glossary
|
|
---
|
|
Linked mentions (also known as backlinks) show all pages that contain a [[Link|link]] to the current page. They appear as a "Linked Mentions" section at the bottom of every page that has incoming links.
|
|
|
|
# How?
|
|
SilverBullet's [[Object Index]] tracks all links between pages. The Linked Mentions widget queries this index to find pages that link _to_ the page you're currently viewing, then displays them with a snippet of the surrounding context.
|
|
|
|
This allows for easy navigation and helps you discover connections between concepts through these bi-directional links.
|
|
|
|
# Why?
|
|
In a traditional notes app, links are one-directional: page A links to page B, but page B has no idea. With linked mentions, every link becomes bi-directional. This means:
|
|
|
|
* You can give a person, project, or concept its own page, and the linked mentions section will automatically collect every reference to it
|
|
* You discover unexpected connections between ideas
|
|
* Your knowledge graph builds itself as you write
|
|
|
|
# Configuration
|
|
You can enable or disable the Linked Mentions widget in [[CONFIG]]:
|
|
|
|
```lua
|
|
-- Disable linked mentions widget
|
|
config.set("std.widgets.linkedMentions.enabled", false)
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
# Programmatic access
|
|
You can query linked mentions directly using [[Space Lua/Lua Integrated Query]]:
|
|
|
|
```lua
|
|
query[[
|
|
from l = tags.link
|
|
where l.toPage == "Some Page"
|
|
order by l.pageLastModified desc
|
|
]]
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
See also: [[Link]], [[Linked Tasks]], [[Object/link]]
|