Reading the manual :
Refs are unique identifiers for nodes. These keys allow references to the key to show up in the Org-roam buffer. For example, a node for a website may use the URL as the ref, and a node for a paper may use an Org-ref citation key.
Why suddenly it speaks about keys ? What are these ?
‘Refs are unique identifiers for nodes.’ But arent ID also unique identifiers ?
From what i read i understand that Refs are a text-readable ID of a note.
So i can create a link to a note either by org-roam-node-insert where a note’s title (or alias) is used to find it or it can happen ,*without necessarily wanting that ,*if another note includes anywhere in it’s text the roam_ref i added to the initial note ?
Is that like having a proxy to a node-note outside my org-roam database ?
eg:
- I find an interesting blog post url:prot//Foo
- I create a note-node with the Refs:prot//Foo AS
- Now any other node that happens to indirectly reference that node will make org-roam create a ref backlink ?
If that is a plausible use case of Refs then why not also when creating a new org link to have an additional list of current external refs used in our roam installation. That way can we can do the link to the Ref node directly and not by chance.