# Obsidian Unlinked Mentions Unlinked mentions are places where a note's name (or one of its [[Obsidian Aliases|aliases]]) appears in another note as plain text, without a [[Obsidian Wikilinks|wikilink]]. The [[Backlinks core plugin for Obsidian]] surfaces them in the backlinks pane, right under the linked mentions. Each unlinked mention comes with a **Link** button that converts the plain text into a proper wikilink in one click. Matching is case-insensitive and includes aliases, which makes aliases doubly valuable: every alias you add widens the net. ## Why this matters Unlinked mentions are the cheapest way to densify a knowledge graph. You already wrote the connection; Obsidian just points out that you forgot to formalize it. Reviewing the unlinked mentions of an important note regularly is one of the highest-leverage maintenance habits in a [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)]] system: it frees knowledge that would otherwise stay invisible to backlinks, the [[Obsidian Graph view]], and any query. ## Good to know - The pane only checks the current note's name and aliases; there is no global "find all unlinked mentions everywhere" view in core Obsidian. - Common words as note titles generate noisy mentions. Specific titles keep the signal high. ## References - Backlinks (linked and unlinked mentions): https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Backlinks ## Related - [[Obsidian]] - [[Obsidian Wikilinks]] - [[Obsidian Aliases]] - [[Backlinks core plugin for Obsidian]] - [[Obsidian Graph view]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)]]