Comment 3 for bug 492486

Hmm.. You are suggesting that everything related to the topic BlueBirds should, rather than flag a [birds:blue} value, rather simply reference BlueBirds. Then I can just go to the BlueBirds page and look at Backlinks. Yes this does produce the same functionality. It doesn't organize visually as well WikidPad.. you can't see a neat tree view with all topics and their referring parents (and you probably wouldn't want to because some kind of complete reverse tree would probably be a mess.) I still like the Wikidpad implementation, but I do see your point, and in fact, you have the advantage of allowing the "values" to have a hierarchy, whereas Wikidpad could.. but doesn't.

Visually though for this, and for reasons of wasted white space, and reasons of links being able to belong to more than one place in the visual tree... I find wikidpads index bar on the left to be much more usable at least for my habits. I'm using both regularly on different systems for different reasons (having very little to do with OS issues).