What—exactly—are backlinks?

A brief introduction to the secret weapon of networked note-taking applications

This is one of several posts on backlinks. There’s this super basic intro to backlinks, a post on understanding and navigating your backlinks, and another on using backlinks to generate information. These are part of a series of posts on topics I searched for when I first started exploring networked note-taking apps like Obsidian, Roam, Logseq, and Reflect.