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Apr 2

Backlinks & Review: "Show more..." & options to edit/schedule/cancel tasks

At the moment you need to jump back to the source note to see more details by clicking on the reference in the backlink panel. Better would be if you can somehow see the information you need without jumping back. Like clicking on a "show more..." button to reveal gradually more text or show the full content of the heading. Alternatively, it could popup a temporary preview window with the context around the linked paragraph. Related Discord Messages: [1](https://discord.com/channels/763107030223290449/763112434181…), [2](https://discord.com/channels/763107030223290449/763112434181…)
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Feb 4, 2022

Thanks for sharing this! As a small workaround, in the next version, v3.4, you can drag the tasks from Review and Search into the Calendar or another note in the sidebar.

May 24, 2021

It might be enough to display the entire "paragraph" if the reference is in the title. Today, a title line is displayed for each reference, so I assume there is some kind of connection. e.g.: ### Actions for [[Project]] [ ] Task A [ ] Task B [ ] Task C The Project page should show entire block (including tasks) in References section.

May 25, 2021

Michal Straka: You mean the entire content below a heading (multiple lines of text) or just the paragraph (delimited by a line break, which should be already displayed, but truncated)?

May 26, 2021

Eduard Metzger: If I mark the heading with [[Project]] then I'd like to see entire paragraph (could be collapsible) in the Project note. I know it could be multiple lines, tasks, subheadings etc. Roam Research does it the same way for sub-content under link.

May 31, 2021

Michal Straka: Ok, thanks for elaborating, I think "paragraph" means something different for me than for you. At least in the code a paragraph is any block of text without a linebreak in it (which would start another paragraph). So I think you mean all the paragraphs below a heading either till the end of the note or till the next heading.

May 20, 2021

Thanks for elaborating, your mention about selecting multiple tasks is a good point. I didn't think about this initially.

Apr 28, 2021

Related: [Click on check-box cycles three states](https://noteplan.canny.io/task-management/p/click-on-check-b…)

Apr 28, 2021

I agree that "jumping back" is the problem. But in my mind I do not "jump back", when I click on the back-link, but when I want to return to the page that contained the back-link. In my mind, when I click on the back-link, I "look up" the item in its original context. What I'd need is a **Big Bad Back Button**, that I can click/tap, after I looked up the item in its original context. A BBBB would be useful on Mac an iOS. And yes, I know that in theory I could click on the link, that was back-linked on the other page. But… - when I look up an item in its original context, I tend to scroll through the note and/or alter the note. That might include deleting the link, that brought me here. - on Mac by default the mouse pointer turns to edit-mode instead of click-mode, so I'd have to move the mouse around before i can click on the link. Related: [Universal Back Action](https://noteplan.canny.io/general-feature-request/p/universa…)

Apr 28, 2021

There's already a feature request, how a task could be canceled in place: [Click on check-box cycles three states](https://noteplan.canny.io/task-management/p/click-on-check-b…)

Apr 5, 2021

I think it would be great to offer both a condensed and more verbose preview options.

Apr 2, 2021

That would be a killer. I often reference page in daily notes with bullet points below but all i currently see in references panel is [[page]] [[page]] [[page]] .... How much content to show is a tricky question. Some ideas If reference is within header "#[[page]]" show everything until next header. If reference is paragraph or bullet point show all bullet points or indented content immediately below.

Apr 5, 2021

Marcin Ignac: one way to potentially provide explicit control over "how much content?" could be to use a numeral to specify exactly how many paragraph blocks following the header. Some examples: [[page#header]] by default shows everything under the header. [[page#header#2]] only shows the first two paragraph blocks following the header If the number chosen is greater than the total number of paragraph blocks under the header, show all paragraph blocks (like default behavior).

Apr 28, 2021

Marcin Ignac: My reference panel in NP 3.0.21 looks like this: ``` v Note Title Heading o Some task o Another task v Note Title Heading o Some task o Another task Another Heading o Some task ``` That covers all my needs for context. It's not always easy to find the right combination of note title, heading and task description. But in my experience it's time well invested.

Mar 11, 2021

Good point!

May 19, 2021

Eduard Metzger: My two cents: Step one would be simply to attach the behaviors that already exist in the Calendar Notes: Mouseover shows an arrow, clicking that arrow gives you the rescheduling popup (image below). That seems fast/easy/good. But this means you'd have to deal with each item one-by-one. Next level would be to allow for a multi-select mode toggle which exposes checkboxes, where I can randomly check next to items on the list and then process them in bulk (again with the same popup menu below).