See which tasks mention a task¶

When another task's own text links here, Bob shows that on this task's generated 🪢 **LINKED FROM:** line as an inert 💬 mentions entry. The chip answers which task talked about this one, what it said, and why the row is here. It is not a relation.

Before you start¶

Install the CLI, open the vault in Obsidian, and enable Bob Ledger Tools and Bob Navigation Hotkeys. Mentions ride relations.linked_from_mentions in ~/.config/bob/config.yml (default false). With the switch off, chips hide and writers mint nothing for mentions.

1. Find a mention on the target¶

Open a task that another task names in its title, a child note, or a Cancel / Schedule / Work / Rotten Log entry, with a block link such as [[note#^id]]. Confirm the LINKED FROM row shows a 💬 mentioned in or 💬 embedded in pill, then the other task's chip. A quote line appears for prose mentions that still have other letters or digits on the line. Title and sole-link mentions have no quote, because the chip already says it.

Without the plugin the stored line still reads as English: 🪢 LINKED FROM: [[other#^s]] (💬 mentions).

2. Read the pill, quote, and card¶

The pill is italics on purpose: reported speech, not a label you chose. Hover or focus it for the context card (Why is this here?). The card lists up to three occurrences with a live excerpt and a location such as in its title or in its Cancel Log. Click the chip to jump to the first occurrence in the mentioning task; Mod-click opens a new pane.

A trailing 💬 on a labelled relation chip means that source also mentions this task in its text.

3. Edit the source, not the chip¶

A mention chip has no ×. Removal is refused with 💬 This comes from a link in ‹S›'s text · edit it there (↵ opens it). Delete or retarget the link in S, then leave the line (nav writes within seconds) or wait for bob task reconcile.

To make the pair a relation instead, add a LINKS entry from S to this task (~ / ~~, or Task Card l / ⇧L). The relation keeps its label; the mention entry goes away. See Link related tasks.

A Depends-On link between the pair already names the other task, so there is no mention entry.

If it goes wrong¶

No chip, but the link is in S. Mentions skip edge lines (Depends-On, BLOCKS, Sub-projects, LINKS, LINKED FROM), Pomodoro ledger rows, headings, note prose, code, comments, inline fields, blockquotes, unresolved or non-task targets, self-links, and a task whose whole description is one embed. Details are in Task relations §19.
The chip is dashed. The stored mention is stale. The next reconcile refreshes the line.
Mentions vanished after a config edit. relations.linked_from_mentions: false removes only (💬 mentions) entries on writable tasks. Flipping it back rebuilds the same bytes.