How do I practice note linking?

The most direct way to practice note linking is through a focused exercise: Open your note system and find two notes you believe are related but haven't explicitly linked. Before creating the link, write one sentence describing the relationship: what exactly connects these two ideas? Now create the link with that sentence as the anchor text or annotation. You've just promoted a vague association into a first-class knowledge object.

Common pitfall: Linking everything to everything. When links are cheap and undisciplined, they become noise. If every note links to fifteen others with no annotation or rationale, you've built a hairball, not a knowledge graph. The failure is treating links as decoration rather than claims. A link without a reason is clutter.

This practice connects to Phase 18 (Knowledge Graphs) — building it as a repeatable habit compounds over time.