oh, this would be fantastic! i tend to be able to make the ‘obvious’ links as i make the note (context being: i am a uni student in the social sciences).
so when writing up notes about a source discussing international intervention, i might link to pages [[sovereignty moc]], [[democratic peace theory]] etc. because i know they’re related (even if i haven’t teased out the ways), or i expect to need a page on that in the future.
but i want my notes to force me to think in unexpected or interdisciplinary ways. sort of like talking to a friend who has an entirely different worldview and going “wait, why didn’t i think of it that way?”
i read one of OP’s replies in another thread. just off the top of my head, possible applications of tags-as-novel-suggestion could be tagging characteristics or approaches. with my earlier source i might tag something like #remember-the-human, #system-transferability, #universal-ethics??, #authority-structures or #is-theory-useful.
those might lead me to a (sociology?) note about who tends to gain authority in communities / ways of gaining authority - which might then get me thinking about the differences between, say, an NGO which sets up a short-term program for women to be upskilled, versus a locally-initiated movement that arose when the community was left with fewer men due to past conflicts - and then, on to how approaches might be changed, but whether we need to move away from theories at all when writing about this stuff.
(caveat: i am only an undergrad. this^ isn’t a super novel thought and one that i would probably have made eventually, especially at a higher level of academia. but i do think being able to create the conditions that these sorts of prompts would reduce some of the mental fatigue or friction involved in doing a lot of synthesis/producing new thoughts. it could also reduce the tendency to take too many notes, or forget about notes you have not seen for a while.)