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@akkartik Did you already find some interesting edge-labelling patterns that lends itself to? I guess the obvious one it's designed for is using "next" only between siblings in a hierarchical document so you can [unroll] them, but is there others? 5 comments
 @s_ol Now that I think about it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31325154#31328000 has also been on my mind. Lots of apps these days use a graph to visualize a network of nodes. But it's just eye candy. I wonder if there's a way to make graph visualizations more useful. Allow a spectrum been seeing a single thing and seeing all the things. Lots of perspectives may help the brain make sense of the graph. @s_ol I want to make it easy to put any two notes on the screen next to each other. Without having to manage file names. I use file names a lot on the terminal. I also want to try to build an app that feels very stable, moves very little, while dealing with an artifact that can't actually fit on a screen. This is a Christopher Alexander influence: https://www.rainmagazine.com/archive/2014/gatemaker; https://www.gregbryant.com/grogbrat/aspen97/index.html @akkartik I've tried building a more comfortable UI along the lines of the system from the HN post above, but the last point you brought up is the hard one here - I couldn't find any tools for *incremental* graph layout so that the graph can stay locally stable as new notes are added and I don't have the graph theory chops to implement something like that myself. @akkartik |
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@s_ol I don't have much of a vision yet, I've been mostly trying to port over my terminal based workflows until I can do everything within this app.
One thing I often do is go back to an old note and add a digression in the middle of it. For the past few years this has gotten more common but I've had nothing better than to just put some brackets and start writing within them. As a result I never have a second level of digression. Maybe I will with a better tool/representation?