> [!infobox] <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)] > > <cite>[[Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes]]</cite> ##### ^dataviews > [!dataview]+ Related unlinked notes > > No results to show for list query. > [!dataview]- Other unlinked mentions > > - [[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]]