Comment by kall

What makes Roam‘s backlinks more useful is what I think of the "write in to pages" pattern. Because on the linked page, the linked items are not actually links but fully transcluded blocks. If there‘s 10 levels below, they are all included in the page. My Roam content is 90% nested daily notes, but a lot of time is spent on pages that have 0 content. The backlinks area is the collaged together page.

All other tools i‘ve seen fall flat on this because they implement backlinks as links, not block transclusion portals.