I first noticed this watching @Conaw use Roam. As he took notes on our chats, he made certain noun phrases (e.g. my name, named theories) into node links. Those nodes had no content of their own, but after a few days, they developed an implicit definition through the backlinks.
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Those backlinks provide kindling for writing the "proper" content of the node later. Seems important for the system to display the backlinks' *context:* a simple list of backlinks won’t implicitly define a node very effectively. Gotta see the context around the link.
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The original wiki (c2) had this! Mention AnythingLikeThis and it becomes a node. Click on it, and you can ask what links to that node (an extra step). Unfortunately it’s no longer up
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Indeed! I was really struck, though, by how enormous a difference it makes to have the backlinks show the *context*. A list of links is pretty impenetrable; a list of *sentences*, though...
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