Backlink: §2020-04-27-2358 Advanced Zetteldeft features

See also the note on manual backlinks (§2020-09-22-0855).

Taking a look at notes that link to the current note is easy with C-c d c (or zetteldeft-search-current-id). But what if you want to include this list in the note itself?

The zetteldeft-insert-list-links generates a list of links to notes with a specific search term (§2020-04-17-1608). By providing a note’s ID as search string, the resulting list contains all notes linking to the current note.

This can be used to generate a list of backlinks. Building on to an automated list of links (§2020-04-17-1611), we can sort of automate this:

(zetteldeft-list-links (zetteldeft--current-id))

• §2020-04-17-1611 Automated lists of links
• §2020-09-22-0855 Backlinks
• §2020-05-10-1552 Zetteldeft ID and link concepts
• §2020-04-17-1605 Expansions HUB

You could provide t as a second argument to the called function, so that only notes that aren’t linked to yet are included in the list.