# Show in Reference Highlights Referenced Entity more clearly

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/show-in-reference-highlights-referenced-entity-more-clearly/1620>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Tags:** blocks\
**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 1:27pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/show-in-reference-highlights-referenced-entity-more-clearly/1620 "2021-05-13T13:27:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 3:20am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/show-in-reference-highlights-referenced-entity-more-clearly/1620/9 "2021-06-25T03:20:48Z")

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> [@B\_Sp](#):
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> @Oshyan and @rothnic would love to hear if you guys are following my example here, and if this is also inline with the pain points you have with Highlights/Backlinks as they currently work!

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 to address issues like this, and end up with a really long and cluttered reference view, but I also agree there are plenty of times when more context is needed. As I’ve mentioned before, the quote expansion functions here in Discourse are a nice example of how this can work.

I’m not sure I quite agree that a Roam-like approach makes sense _for this particular use case_, or at least _in the way that backlinks are currently setup_. The advantage Roam has there is that it’s _all_ outline format and otherwise “free form”. It can show all child blocks because it’s all just in the same “document context”. The references in Fibery are more specialized and I think a different approach is needed to jive with that approach. Not to say the fundamental approach could not be changed and a more Roam-like one adopted… But I like my Discourse quote-alike approach concept. 😉

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