17 Finding Unlinked References

Unlinked references are occurrences of strings of text that exactly match the title or alias of an existing note in the Org-roam database. Org-roam provides facilities for discovering these unlinked references, so one may decide whether to convert them into links.

To use this feature, simply call M-x org-roam-unlinked-references from within an Org-roam note. Internally, Org-roam uses ripgrep and a clever PCRE regex to find occurrences of the title or aliases of the currently open note in all Org-roam files. Hence, this requires a version of ripgrep that is compiled with PCRE support.

NOTE: Since ripgrep cannot read encrypted files, this function cannot find unlinked references within encrypted files.