feature request to have a popup preview of links on hover.
Ideally, the popup preview should show a scrollable view (sticky popup, it remains visible as long as the user doesn’t explicitly click outside of the popup preview window or press ESC – as opposed to a popup that closes as soon as the mouse leaves the link) of the linked page / block in the repo.
I would consider ‘glimpse’ to be the main feature as Editing is only one click away in all cases.
In obsidian and TW, I used to tweak the css to have a zoomed-out view in the popover, to see more content in a smaller pop-up.
I guess editing inside the popover would be the icing on the cake, although it should then probably be restricted to editing in inline mode without access to front matter or other potentially page-breaking stuff, a sort of ‘safe mode’ editing view?
another good use case for popup previews would be block refs, block embeds peeping : as the autocompletion suggestions for blocks appears, the user could glimpse at the actual content to help disambiguate similar results.
for instance, as the graph grows, we will probably get multiple hits for common terms like ((introduction)) ((feature)) or ((setup))… without a proper way to disambiguate the block origin/context it’s easy to mix up links. Maybe a content preview could alleviate this issue ?
Popover previews are really useful for me. Here’s how they look in Roam, which I actually like more than Obsidian’s (currently they just work for block refs, not for pages).
We recently discussed the issue of what to call markdown links in the Discord, and I think alias is the wrong term here. But I agree that, for markdown links to blocks (or pages for that matter), it would be great to have Logseq preview the content of the link target.
