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I'm using Stroll, a variant of TiddlyWiki that imitates Roam Research (more or less).

I'm a heavy image user, so I have a lot of image tiddlers linked to an external directory via canonical uris.

I want to use these images in other tiddlers filled with text, to comment them, to use them to illustrate a point, etc.

The problem is that when I transclude the image tiddlers (via double curly brackets), they still appear as orphans. This is an undesirable behaviour in my case. If I have used an image at least once, I don't want it to appear as an orphan.

The solution I have found is awkward: I transclude the image via double curly brackets, and inmediately below I write a link to the image (via double square brackets, as is the norm in Stroll and RoamResearch), so it doesn't appear as an orphan.

So in the editor mode, I write this:

{{PhaistosDisc.jpg}}

[[PhaistosDisc.jpg]]

That is double work and it leaves an undesired link below the image in the Viewing mode.

Another failed solution: if you try to modify the system tiddler that manages orphans ($:/core/Filters/Orphans) and modify it like this...

[all[orphans]!has[_canonical_uri]sort[title]]

... then the image tiddlers that really ARE orphans (they have never been linked OR transcluded) dissapear from the orphans list, and that is undesirable too.

Any ideas?

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    Unfortunately TiddlyWiki currently doesn't keep track of where tiddlers are transcluded, so I don't think this is possible. There is an [open PR](https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/pull/4766) related to this. – Soren Bjornstad May 24 '21 at 14:29

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