LinkBack is an open source framework for Mac OS X that helps developers integrate content from other applications into their own. A user can paste content from any LinkBack-enabled application into another and reopen that content later for editing with just a double-click. Changes will automatically appear in the original document again when you save.

If you are an end user, use LinkBack with any of the LinkBack-enabled applications available from some of your favorite software companies. If you are a developer, download the SDK to learn more about how easy it is to use LinkBack in your own application.

Is there a LinkBack-enabled version of Nisus Writer Express out there?

shhh…don’t tell.

Another Linkback app from Stone:

iMaginator incorporates SpotLight technology for instant searching and is applescriptable. iMaginator is a LinkBack server which means you can copy the resulting image and paste into a LinkBack client server, such as Stone Design’s flagship page layout and web authoring application, Create®. Then, when you want to edit the image, you simply double-click it in Create® to modify the image again in iMaginator. When you save your edits, your changes show up immediately in Create®.

This is a really cool application of LinkBack. Find out more here!

O’Reilly just published a tutorial on how to add LinkBack to an application on macdevcenter! Very exciting coverage of LinkBack. Give it a read; leave a comment!

We just added a link to MindCad’s excellent outlining and brainstorming application Pyramid. They’re all in with LinkBack, supporting it both as a client and as a server. Get more info here.

Andrew put LinkBack into Create in record time (about 2 hours). Get Create and Chartsmith today and start using LinkBack in your own creations!

From the press release:

Create® 12.3.3 features LInkBack support: LinkBack is a powerful new technology that allows users to create graphics in Create®, paste them into another LinkBack application, and later call upon Create to re-edit those graphics with just a click. Because Create is both a LinkBack Server and a LinkBack client, you can also paste data from LinkBack enabled applications for page layout in Create, and then later re-edit those graphics in the original application. To learn more about LinkBack and LinkBack enabled applications, visit The LinkBack Project page: www.linkbackproject.org.

Congratulations to Tony and everyone else at Blacksmith! They are the reason we announced LinkBack this last month.

Reston, Virginia — April 1, 2005 — Blacksmith announced today, that Chartsmith v1.2.8 is the first shipping application to support LinkBack, the new technology that brings embedded objects to Mac OS X.  With LinkBack, users can paste charts from Chartsmith into LinkBack-enabled applications and then edit the chart at any time with just a double-click.  Users can take advantage of the new functionality right away using a plugin that adds LinkBack support to Apple’s Keynote.  Chartsmith will also be usable with future versions of Nisus Writer Express, OmniGraffle, Omni Outliner, Stone Create and several other applications that will also include LinkBack support.

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For all of you developers out there, a new version of the LinkBack framework has been posted. This version incorporates some changes submitted by developers as well as improved support for finding applications to launch and some user interface goodies for client apps.

There is also now a first draft of a LinkBack Developer’s Guide. This covers the basic of what you will need to do to incorporate LinkBack into your own application.

The LaTeX-based EquationEditor will include support for LinkBack thanks to the work of Yuji Tachikawa at the University of Tokyo. With this great new feature you will be able to create an equation in EquationEditor then paste it into other LinkBack applications like Nisus Writer Express, OmniOutliner, and Stone Create. You can edit your equation with just a double-click. Check out a sample movie.

King Chung Huang has released the first version of LinkBack Keynote Plug-In! Check out his page for a download and some interesting movies. If you are a developer, you can download the LinkBack Source and build the example apps to try out the Keynote plugin.

Stone Design have announced plans to support LinkBack in a future release of their venerable Create drawing, layout, and publish-to-web application. If you are planning on adding support to your application, please let us know and we will list your application in our LinkBack directory of application.