I’ve tripped on a fun use of contextual backlinks in my cooking practice. After I get back from the farmer’s market each week, I plan out that week’s meals, linking to empty notes for key ingredients. Over time, each ingredient grows a useful index of preparations via backlinks.
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It’s funny—I could get the same result by just searching my cooking notes for “peas,” but this feels meaningfully different in a way I don’t understand. One factor is object permanence: because peas have a concrete “place,” I add general notes on technique to that note over time.
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Another interesting advantage of object permanence is that it enables browsing. Searching depends on me having a specific query in mind, but with this approach, I can browse all notes tagged “#ingredient” (or whatever) and see what inspires me.
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I was doing this for a few fields in my Daily Notes (Gratitude, Daily Progress, etc.). Unfortunately the list gets quite unwieldy with time & there’s no way to filter in Bear. I found it easier to manage this in Roam which is one of the things that made me switch
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Yes, this does seem to be the kind of thing which benefits from more interface than a plaintext editor can offer.
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Heh, I guess that shows what I find most interesting—my cooking is very Californian! I’m mostly interested in the produce.
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