[Feature] Unlinked mentions

[skoove]

Coming from obsidian to org + org-node, a feature I really liked was unlinked mentions, being able to see the words that match the title or alias in other notes then quickly make the link to it. It works in 2 directions too, other node to current node and current node to other nodes. I unfortunately have zero clue how to implement this as I am very new to lisp.

Ideally these would be available

• Ability to see unlinked mentions to other nodes inside the current node
• Ability to see unlinked mentions to current node from other nodes
• Quickly create the link (go through the list and press enter or something)

It is not necessary for me, but it would greatly help the discoverability of my nodes as I often forget what nodes I do and do not have.

[meedstrom]

How do your note titles look?

It's interesting how much people vary on title style. One person has titles like Class::Function. Whereas I have titles like Taking notes is never a detour.

With the latter style it's hard to see how to automatically discover unlinked mentions in any kind of efficient way (at least as long as we want org-mem-reset to finish in a second or so).

If all titles reliably have something decided-in-advance like at least one pair of colons ::, org-mem could easily be patched to search for all such occurrences.

I guess an alternative is for org-node to ship some kind of command that scans for possible unlinked mentions and list them, so that you can manually linkify each one. Perhaps an interactive session similar to org-node-rewrite-links-ask.

A third option may be to automatically scan for unlinked mentions in the background after a bit of idle time has passed since a org-mem-reset. That'd get us closest to what you want. That leads to another question: how would you like them to be indicated? A section in the org-node-context buffer for "Unlinked Mentions"?

EDIT: I suppose a fourth option is grep in realtime. (Would not be an org-mem feature then, purely org-node.)