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<s class="aside-in"><em>mentioned in 2 topics, 2 evergreens</em></s>
#### <s class="topic-title">[[stub notes]]</s>
In:: [[web of thought|webs of thought]] and [[networked thinking]],
stub notes are [[Topic notes]] that do not have and content and are there to easily access their metadata (backlinks, graph positioning).
> Systems which display backlinks to a node permit a new behavior: you can define a new node extensionally (rather than intentionally) by simply linking to it from many other nodes—even before it has any content.
^[[Backlinks can be used to implicitly define nodes in knowledge management systems](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z2newCwFfd6iZFyf9bgspkbyt1G8wbQxJVgTK)]
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> <cite>[[Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes]]</cite>
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> - [[Obsidian's graph is useful in the implicit and dynamic relations it can reveal]]
> - [[Stub notes are data structures for implicit knowledge gathering]]
> - [[Using Obsidian's graph as a class companion]]