New Outliner/Roam Clone

Posted by JakeBernsteinWA
Aug 11, 2020 at 07:41 PM

I’d be curious to read somewhere about why block referencing is so important. I’m sure it is…I just don’t understand it. Thanks to any who have some resources on this!

Luhmann wrote:
For me, “block referencing” is as important as backlinks and
>transclusion. This is for me where markdown based Roam competitors fall
>short, since the best they can do is reference a section by the header.
>There are very few options that have all three: block reference,
>backlinks, and transclusion. It is interesting to look at the obsidian
>forms in this regard. Those who have come from zettelkasten are quite
>satisified, since they tend to take short notes, thus each note is a
>block. However, those who come from Roam, tend to be frustrated at the
>lack of granularity within large documents. There are some very
>interesting discussions on the Obsidian forums about various
>workarounds, but I’m not very hopeful that they will ever have true
>block referencing on the paragraph level like Roam.