Musings on mentions

Posted by Chris Murtland
Oct 28, 2020 at 11:14 PM

With TheBrain recently adding the Roam/Obsidian feature of “unlinked mentions,” I thought it would be worth exploring how people find those useful and what potential use cases (and drawbacks) they may have.

I was recently thinking that unlinked mentions are basically just an automatic search for the title of the note/topic you are currently viewing. I like how it adds a feeling of serendipity to information, but I also wonder how it would fare when you have many thousands of notes and possibly many thousands of mentions. It seems like saved searches in an application like Ultra Recall may be more useful with large data stores -because you can add more criteria than just “find other notes containing the text of this note’s title.”