Knowledge systems which display contextual backlinks to a node open up an interesting new behavior. You can bootstrap a new node extensionally (rather than intensionally) by simply linking to it from many other nodes—even before it has any content.
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Isn't that roughly the concept behind pagerank? The relevance of a website is defined by the websites that link to it?
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It's interesting to think about the relevance angle here—something you reference a lot is clearly important to you, even if you haven't written anything on it explicitly. But this is more akin to saying a website is partially implicitly defined by the websites that link to it.
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This is especially great for learning as a fly on the wall in discussions. I like to construct a mapping of terms and their relationships as they are used in dialogue. Over time, the conceptual structure reveals itself, even when I haven't defined anything directly.pic.twitter.com/P9tOI7joY2
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MediaWiki (the Wikipedia engine) lets you create links to pages that don't exist, and it makes empty pages for them. Click the link, then fill in the page. It's a way to indicate “this page should exist (sooner or later)”
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Early versions of Roam were like that, until we realized that often the collections of things I've written on **other pages** which reference [[Andy Matuschak]], are often as important or more than what I'd write on a page dedicated to him. Thus Roam's references sectionpic.twitter.com/34XSKksomf
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Love the idea of boostrapping from backlinks! Knowledge creation is incremental and emergent, so you don't want a system that makes you define as much as possible when you make any note/link (as is the case in most notetaking apps).
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