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While making the note more complete in terms of metadata, it's redundant because it's supposed to be a personal wiki. Only one person is the assumed owner of them.
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#+title: Bidirectional links
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#+date: "2020-06-28 06:19:24 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2020-09-09 05:16:33 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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Ever since [[file:2020-05-09-12-48-23.org][Roam Research]] became a popular option for [[file:2020-04-15-14-35-55.org][Note-taking]], there has been interest in one of its popular features: bidirectional linking.
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This feature alone allows for a different way of thinking about note-taking — notes are better to be associative instead of hierarchical just like how our brain works.
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It allows for other Roam features such as backlinking and a visual representation of the notes with a graph.
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Compared to monodirectional links like in the web, bidirectional links have inherent social awareness: the ability to look back to linked pages.
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With this feature, you can easily form a graph of pages which you can easily establish contextual relationships between them.
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This is a feature that I've often sought after especially for technical websites such as [[https://encyclopediaofmath.org/][Encyclopedia of Mathematics]].
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That said, bidirectional links are not a silver bullet.
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If this is implemented on the web today, it would cause a lot of problems — spamming, trollish linking, and the fact you have no control over what pages being linked to your page requiring heavier moderation.
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Hence, this is more suitable for certain situations such as personal wikis (see [[file:2020-06-04-21-32-23.org][Create evergreen notes with a digital garden]]).
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Certain software such as Mediawiki, Dokuwiki, and Tiddlywiki offer this feature either as a built-in feature or an extension.
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[fn:: Well, most of them have it as an extension.]
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