> "Can it link to adjacent knowledge?"
^connectivity
## Resolution
> The property of a knowledge artefact being able to link to, and be linked from, adjacent knowledge.
^definition
A knowledge artefact in isolation forces every reader to know its relationships out of band. Connectivity lets the artefact participate in a graph of meaning - linking outward to what it depends on, and being linked inward by what depends on it. Tools without first-class linking score poorly; tools where every artefact has explicit named edges score high. This is linking *within* a body of knowledge; exchange *across* domain boundaries is its sibling, interoperability.
## In practice
> A note on Reflexivity opens: "Reflexivity is a property of [[Binary relation|binary relations]] where every element relates to itself."
A wikilink resolves at read time; the related concept is one click away. The reader does not have to remember what binary relations are - they can follow the edge.
## Discovery questions
Customer-facing prompts that surface this attribute being missing, grouped by the pain each probes.
### From [[Feeling lost in own work]] (P)
![[Feeling lost in own work#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[My notes scattered across apps]] (P)
![[My notes scattered across apps#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Org knowledge scattered across stores]] (C)
![[Org knowledge scattered across stores#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Cross-team coordination missing]] (C)
![[Cross-team coordination missing#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Each note an island]] (P)
![[Each note an island#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Cannot trace my ideas across years]] (P)
![[Cannot trace my ideas across years#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Reinventing things I have done before]] (P)
![[Reinventing things I have done before#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Teams reinvent what others built]] (C)
![[Teams reinvent what others built#^discovery-questions]]
### From [[Onboarding takes too long]] (C)
![[Onboarding takes too long#^discovery-questions]]