Unlinked Notes vs. links and backlinks

[MitchWagner]

I was intrigued by a comment by @rolfaalders, who makes artful use of unlinked mentions to create soft links between daily notes and project notes.

Working with daily notes and project logs

Really interested in this myself. Tried adding work log to my daily notes but asked myself the question: why all these project details in my daily notes? Date is less relevant than content. So I started logging the notes in my project files. When taking the note I add new heading with the date in the same format as my daily note title, yyyymmdd. That way, notes appear in the unlinked backlink section, which might be useful. But this way my local graph doesn’t get cluttered with all my daily no…

I’d not thought of using unlinked mentions purposefully like that. I’d thought of them as being like error messages, or suggestions – “Shouldn’t you link these too?”

Anybody else creating unlinked mentions on purpose? If so, how and why?