I’ve been meaning to write about this for some time, but always seemed to get distracted with other topics until now.
Several years ago when I was first coming to grips with the note taking application Obsidian, which I’ve written about previously, I came across the term transclusion in the documentation. That had me scratching my head until I read further and discovered it’s a way to reference another document from the current document, and have the contents of the referenced document displayed.
A light bulb went off in my head and took me back several decades to my programming days. It’s the same as the COBOL INCLUDE statement.
A colleague once remarked that every industry renames concepts on a semi-regular basis. He’d built a good career around training and consulting on the impact of those name changes. Files, records, and fields becoming tables, rows , and columns – that sort of thing.
While I was checking some things for this post, I learned the Obsidian help now talks about how to embed a file. Transclusion isn’t mentioned, which I think makes it easier for the non-technical user.
Still, it’s interesting to see that sometimes, even the new names get replaced.
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