Migrate Entity View to Blocks

[Oshyan]

I agree that there are some big unknown questions here.

Personally for now I am less concerned about having low-level blocks, but I’d love to be able to “quote”/reference specific sections of text really easily, like we can here in Discourse. I’ve said it before, but I think it is questionable whether it’s better to have a system that always operates on referencing of whole blocks, vs. one where you can simply select what you want to reference (with e.g. drag-select of text). Related previous discussions:

Show in Reference Highlights Referenced Entity more clearly

Yeah, I think you’ve pointed out a couple of great examples here! Often I’m unsure exactly how this would best be solved in a programmatic way. Even if it’s easy as a human to say “well it should include those things in the context, obviously”, it is not necessarily as easy to tell a computer program how to do it in a majority of cases. That’s why I continue to favor some combination of “good defaults, but expandable context view”. I don’t want it to default to “too much” context just …

In Highlights, "Roam-like" inclusion of Hierarchy of Text Blocks

Thanks for the encouraging response! I want to just say one other thing, since my feelings about highlights are a bit different than @B_Sp. I personally do sometimes run into “not enough context”, but also run into the opposite: more context than I need, the backlink quote takes up more space than necessary. I think regardless of what you do you’ll be “guessing” how much context to include. So when you get back to looking closely at this and how to improve it, just keep in mind what I mentioned…