I have written some code that, in the org-roam buffer, displays backlinks not just to a file, but to any nodes in that file. But given how the org-roam database works—listing, for every node, its associated files—this is limited to calling the org-roam buffer on a file-level node, not any children nodes. Is there a way to generate, for any node, its child nodes? I think this discussion is related: has any progress been made on this in org-roam?
For those who are interested, the code I’ve written to generate the child backlinks is this:
(defun azr/org-roam-get-child-nodes (node)
"Get list of child nodes of NODE, if NODE is a file."
(unless (= 1 (org-roam-node-point node))
(error "NODE is not a file."))
(let ((file (org-roam-node-file node)))
(->> (org-roam-node-list)
(-filter (lambda (elt) (equal file (org-roam-node-file elt))))
(-filter (lambda (elt) (/= 1 (org-roam-node-point elt)))))))
(defun azr/org-roam-child-backlinks-section (node)
"Like org-roam-backlinks-section but for backlinks to children nodes, if NODE is a file."
(when-let ((backlinks (seq-sort #'org-roam-backlinks-sort (-flatten-n 1 (mapcar #'org-roam-backlinks-get (azr/org-roam-get-child-nodes node))))))
(magit-insert-section (org-roam-backlinks)
(magit-insert-heading "Backlinks (children):")
(dolist (backlink backlinks)
(org-roam-node-insert-section
:source-node (org-roam-backlink-source-node backlink)
:point (org-roam-backlink-point backlink)
:properties (org-roam-backlink-properties backlink)))
(insert ?\n))))
(setq org-roam-mode-section-functions
'(org-roam-backlinks-section
azr/org-roam-child-backlinks-section
org-roam-reflinks-section))
It looks like this:
