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Kartik Agaram

@s_ol Now that I think about it, news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3 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.

6 Aug 2022 at 0:23 | Open on merveilles.town
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Kartik Agaram

@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: rainmagazine.com/archive/2014/; gregbryant.com/grogbrat/aspen9

6 Aug 2022 at 0:27 | Open on merveilles.town
s-ol

@akkartik
Nice. Colin is on mastodon too btw: @ColinTheMathmo

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.

6 Aug 2022 at 12:24 | Open on merveilles.town
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