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a question for users of obsidian and other knowledge graph type note repos: can you describe your personal approach to [when], [where in a note], and [what] you choose to internally hyperlink?

all types and levels of detail of responses welcome

not-knowing ✹ 🍕-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish

very heavily

- proper nouns, e.g names, places, titles, etc
- external concepts, topics, fields
- evergreen memetic sentences

if the reference appears multiple times in one note, I will usually link at least its first appearance to establish the relationship but not always every single mention

making /obsidian • writing stephango.com

proper nouns!! this is very cool can you unpack the motivation for this?

how do you decide which concepts/topics/fields deserve hyperlinking? or do you do all of them ?

the motivation is creating a useful web of backlinks so I can always find my way back to prior thoughts

I try to link all of them, yes

my model is basically "do what Wikipedia would do"

my model is basically "do what Wikipedia would do"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking