Split Screen And Unlinked References

[marinasflorin]

I absolutely love trilium. Been using most of the note taking apps (I have quite a vast experience here).

There are two big competitors coming: Obsidian and Roam research. But I believe trilium can beat them both.

I would suggest two big features that will bring trilium to another league:

1. Split View -> In obsidian, you can add multiple screens, like you can split and rearrange tabs how you want. They are in the same window (trilium just creates new tabs)
2. Unlinked references -> this way it can help us find contextual notes easier so we can link them.

If you are interested, I can create a website for you and help you get more people to use trilium. It's such a game changer for me.

I thank you for doing this software 👍

[zadam]

Hi, thanks for the nice words.

For 1. trilium also supports opening notes in a new window which you can then arrange as you wish.

2. can you describe what you mean by unlinked references?

[Engr-AllanG]

I too love Trilium and have also been checking out Obsidian. I just checked, and I have tested about 20 different note apps over the last 3-6 months. Trilium is my favorite and the most powerful imo, and Obsidian is second. I think there is a paid market for your product.

Unlinked references in Obsidian show up in a sidebar and lists places the note title appears elsewhere, but isn't actually linked. It is basically an automatic search function on the note title.

[zadam]

Oh, ok, in that case Trilium already sort of have this functionality - there's a widget in the sidebar called "Similar notes" which lists notes with fuzzy-similar note title ...

[marinasflorin]

Hi Zadam.

Indeed, you cam split the screen in a new draggable window. But this feature should be INSIDE the trilium window: If you know Notepad++, you can split the text editor in 2. Two windows inside the same window container. This enables you and us to easily read and write notes.

P.S. sent you a mail 👍

[fivestones]

@zadam A bit more about unlinked references: I think the "Similar notes" feature in Trilium is great--but what Roam (and maybe Obsidian too?) have that makes it better is that it's not just a link to other notes with a similar title--instead unlinked references is a list of every other note that mentions the title of the current note. Like if I have a note called "Books" and then in some other note called "Projects" I type the word "books" in the middle of a paragraph somewhere, now back in the note called "Books" in the unlinked references list, it shows a link to the "Projects" note, along with an excerpt from the relevant part of that "Projects" note. And, maybe most importantly, there is a option next to it called "Link". If you click on "Link", the word "books" in the "Projects" note will now link to the "Books" note. And on the "Books" note, the "Projects" note will show up in the Linked References area (called "What Links Here" in Trilium). Here's a link to the relevant part of a video about Roam that shows how this feature works there: https://youtu.be/vxOffM_tVHI?t=320

The ability to see every other note that mentioned the title of this note is amazing, and shouldn't be hard to add to Trilium.

I'd also love to see "What Links Here" (and the yet to be created "Unlinked References") made more prominent, maybe moving them up in the sidebar or putting them at the bottom of the note itself.

Thanks for the amazing work you've already done!

[sdlytcl]

Unlinked References, I love it. But trilium doesn't have.

[fivestones]

Unlinked References, I love it. But trilium doesn't have.

Nope, it doesn’t...yet. But here’s hoping it will in the future!