I happen to stumble upon another thread (Find and replace links across all files in a vault - #4 by Klaas) that happen to be about this topic:
Those are one-word notes (e.g. “deep work” or “job” or “ideas”) that I linked up because it was so easy[^1].
I think maybe this will be a “let’s wait and see” type of problem. I have a lot of existing Evernote content that is like this where one-word notes like “french fries”, “leptin” or “gluconeogenesis”.
Right now I am thinking these are “OK” and I can have a separate folder for them, or find a way to distinguish them with an initial symbol or emoji. Then in the graph view, filter them away so the interesting thought stumbling can happen.