I wrote a bit about using Obsidian with bottom-up / smart notes.

My Obsidian Vault setup: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-vault

All posts about Obsidian: https://bryanhogan.com/tags/obsidian

Maybe this helps?

I'll check it out, thanks!

Edit: Upon a quick scan, this looks more like what I learned as "Linking Your Thinking", which resonates way more with me than a strict Zettelkasten format where you try to arrange notes linearly to match some artificial constraint.

And I think that's a good thing, just not how Ahrens described Zettelkasten.