Alex MacCaw
complete
v1 of this has been released.
Alex MacCaw
in progress
Donny Reynolds
Alex MacCaw: Woo!
Devon Meadows
This would truly unlock connected thinking and finally make it useful on the deepest level. Hope to see much better graph options in the future.
Donny Reynolds
Copying my feedback from the Discord chat
"I feel that there are two types of use cases that Reflect is trying to serve: chronological and associative note-taking, and I hope the UI in the future will incorporate improvements to how those two types of treated."
## Food for thought:
Daily notes could be incorporated into backlinked notes in a special way. For example, a Person note could have a special "meetings" section. A Book note could have a special "reading notes" section. These would be separate from the regular backlinks at the bottom, which would be reserved for atomic ideas and concepts.
In Brain, perhaps Daily Note nodes could be colored differently or completely hidden by user choice. However, sometimes daily notes would serve as intermediate connections to other ideas. Hiding them completely might destroy the visual connection between them.
For example, I met Bob (Person), we talked about a series of topics including "merits of exercise" (recorded in Daily Note). The graph would show "Bob" -> "Nov 30, 2021" -> "merits of exercise"
By hiding the date node, how would we preserve the connection between "Bob" and "merits of exercise"? Do we automatically "connect through" Daily Notes? Do we shrink them to a little nexus dot?
I like the idea of automatically connecting "through" them. If we treat every backlink in a Daily Note as a transparent connection (derived by bullet point hierarchy), we could have
* [[Bob]]
* talked about [[merits of exercise]]: (elaborate)
* mentioned that we should discuss X with [[Jane]]
* [[Jane]]
* discussed [[meaning of life]]: (elaborate)
We would have a graph like
"Bob" -> "merits of exercise"
|_> "Jane" -> "meaning of life"
And maybe that special "Daily Note" _edge_ is clickable and hoverable, providing you a preview of the connecting passage.
Donny Reynolds
Also would be great to have people, books, and links colored differently
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Mtamstedt
Obsidian's Graph/Brain (the best one out there I think) is perfect to be inspired of when updating the graph in Reflect. Currently, the graph/brain in Reflect is a very good start - but more or less useless when there are more than a handful of notes.
Perfect to have in an updated Graph/Brain in Reflect
- Possibility to filter (hide/show) at least daily notes and/or orphan notes
- "Force" adjustment: Center, repel, link and link distance
- Full page name displayed
- View the links (in and out) for a page (local graph, page graph).
Alex MacCaw
planned
J
James McDermott
Will filtering allow you to filter on just tags or people/notes as well? Would be cool to be able to say "Filter by Jimmy McDermott" and have all of the lines between connections highlighted