Overuse of Internal Links

I think that what I’m most afraid of as a Zettelkasten user is what I believe to be the overuse of internal links. Like, at most 2 links per 50 words in a note. That is the limit for me. I believe much more in the quality of having it extend linearly rather than it being a uber-dense heap.

I mean 2 internal links per 50 words is already a fucking lot. My current index/starting page is already about to have 2.78 links per 50 words right now, being 360 words with 20 links. No need to go crazy.

Ad Break for Negations:

1. It’s not a table of contents.
2. Each note that I have is a content note. There is not a single index note.
3. Again, no structure notes. All content notes.
4. No, it’s not a structure note.
5. No, it’s not a synthesizing note. All notes are synthesizing content notes.
6. No. There is no constellational synthesis and focal synthesis.
7. There is no narrow front or broad front.
8. There is no overview. Each note is a content note.
9. There is no junction notes.
10. There is no “mere list of 20 related links”.
11. There is no different behavior. Its only difference is that it so happened to be the first note.
12. It is not an index beyond just being the first note.

I am not saying that the index page breaking my rules. I am proving that 2 links per 50 words is already a lot and good enough. Going beyond that is not a bad thing at all. I’m just saying that it might be better to keep the average at 2 per 50, since there is a point where it can feel like a self-convinced structure rather than something truly engaging with out-there ideas that bypass common mechanisms of “webbing”. Basically, avoiding an incestuous system.

Nevertheless, incest can be a nice way to go deep into a system of mind (not just a state of mind). It is so self-filtering and absorbing in an echo chamber–like way that it becomes its own compelling delusion, like a fiction web novel series with 1.5 million words. This does not contradict what I said. I am merely saying that it can go both ways.

Self-Responses:

1. The best way to describe this “incest” is “god in the machine”, or Deus in machina.