Scrapbox does not have come-from link, so when I try to express something like mathematics, where the definition is in one place and the other place is the use of the definition, I have to make the definition side a page title instead of a link, which makes the page more divided than necessary and makes it less visually appealing. I wonder if page embedding could be done…

A come-from link is a way to declare, “If a link for this keyword is pressed on another page, it will come here.

  • Opposite to “goto” which is “go where you are going”.
  • This makes it easy to express, as in mathematics, when you have a definition in one place and want to jump to that definition in another place.
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  • Illustration. Blue line means link.

If you naively use the appearance of the keyword “XX sex” in Scrapbox as a link

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  • A virtual “XX sex” page would be created, and pages that use “XX sex” would be lined up on it.
    • No distinction is made between the definition and use of the concept.
    • I don’t know where to look when I want to see a definition.

Solution 1

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  • Move the content that was in part B
  • This would break the state of A and B being adjacent to each other.
  • Would it be nice to have “page embedding” to solve this divide? I thought

Solution 2

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  • Row links point to the definition position
  • Can be realized with little effort
  • Content fragmentation will not occur.
  • One click more, but you can get to the definition. - If only we could finally find it.
    • The first method will become buried and unreachable as the use of the concept grows, so it would be better to point to a definition before it is born.

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