A nice strategy for expanding my knowledge has been to find episodes of people I discover on the internet, on the Fridman podcast. There is something engaging and intimate about listening to the human being. Often, I find that the persona they portray on the internet is not the same on the show.
The backlinking (unlinked mentions) is just a grep for the filename of the current file in all other files.
I just figured out how I would implement the linking functionality of Obsidian using unix tools. The forward linking (linked mentions) is easy enough, look for the regex pattern \[\[\(.*\)\]\] which captures the text inside wiki links and search for those file names using find.
Some notes in obsidian actually represent high level topics or entities that I frequently write about. I find that this is similar to Entity Linking which I learned about in one of my masters courses.
I don’t know if this is because of familiarity? Or because it feels more intimate to write on paper knowing others can’t reach my handwriting? Another thing is this realization that “oh I am looking at a screen again”. And that puts a mental block when writing on my phone or laptop. It’s much easier to carry a notebook compared to a laptop. But the same argument can be made for a phone (which is even smaller than a notebook).