Linking connects ideas, not notes

Links between notes in a Personal knowledge management system break the hierarchical folder structure, allowing documents and ideas to live wherever the choose. Ideas can’t emerge from the structure because the rigidity of the structure means everything is already decided.

Question

Am I wrong that when I think of linking notes, I think of creating direct system links between them? I don’t think about creating a note that is the link between ideas.

Creating links between notes using the Obsidian [[ ]] syntax only creates a different type of structure. One that is more fluid than a folder structure, but organisation nevertheless. Maps of content are magnets for this type of link and are the pinnacle of Structure notes.

So, is the link the idea? No. “Linking” means connecting ideas, not connecting notes.

Linking is using the high-value generative No Ma Method Prompts to generate a new idea.¹ Linking is Combinational creativity.

Figuring out how to name a note is Sense making in itself and part of the “Linking” process.

Footnotes

1. The new idea is usually encapsulated in its own note that is is structurally linked using [[ ]] as a shorthand to visualise connections. See Graph view. ↩