Is There a Way to Force Re-indexing Backlinks?

[zicklag]

Hey there! I've been using Neno for taking notes for the last while and just recently in the last few days I noticed that it's not updating the backlinks for some notes all of the sudden.

I'm not exactly sure how to reproduce, because I have 220 notes, and it only just started happening, and I can't reproduce with a quick test in a new folder.

Do you have any guidance on what I could do to get the backlinks to update, or what I can do to troubleshoot?

Edit: I just realized that the backlinks will work if I use the [[my-page]] format, but not if I use the /my-page.

I'm using the /my-page format for everything to be compatible with the subtext spec.

[polyrainbow]

Hey there,
I'm happy trying to help finding the root cause of this issue.

I quickly did a test and also could not reproduce it, neither by using slaslinks or wikilinks.

You can re-index backlinks by just reloading the page. All indexes are re-created on each page load from the subtext files on disk. There is no browser storage cache or whatsoever.

Do the backlinks re-appear after startup? Or are they still missing? If they re-appear, this must be an issue with the backlink index updater during runtime. If not, it's a more general issue with how backlink indexing works.

[zicklag]

Thanks! Nothing changes when I reload the page, even with a ctrl+shift+R for a forced reload.

But, I was just able to reproduce with two really tiny notes, so hopefully that helps!

nenotest.zip

[polyrainbow]

Yes, I can reproduce it. Indeed a bug. I'll investigate...
Thank you!

[polyrainbow]

The fix is included in #66 and in v8.6.3. When you refresh the app a few times and give the service worker some time to update all assets, you should get it.

Two unrelated remarks:

I'm using the /my-page format for everything to be compatible with the subtext spec.

Since there is no active development on the original Subtext spec anymore, I have forked it and I am planning to make Wikilinks part of the spec. The original spec authors already started an exploration for this.

I'm following your work on the Leaf Protocol and weird.one. Great stuff!

[zicklag]

The fix is included in #66 and in v8.6.3. When you refresh the app a few times and give the service worker some time to update all assets, you should get it.

Awesome it works, thanks!

I'm following your work on the Leaf Protocol and weird.one. Great stuff!

Thanks! 😀

Since there is no active development on the original Subtext spec anymore, I have forked it and I am planning to make Wikilinks part of the spec.

Oh, cool! My biggest reason for complying exactly with subtext was just to make parsing easier if I needed to migrate to another note tool, most-likely if I wrote my own using eventually using Leaf. 😄 But I definitely think wiki-style links are a good idea for the Subtext spec. 👍️