I found the Obsidian app this past year, and I love it. It made planning my NaNoWriMo novel such a breeze. Seeing the connections between things in the graph view was spectacular.
@naavakaiho I am doing the same, but in #Emacs with Org-Roam -> https://www.orgroam.com/
and Org-Roam-UI - going to be perfect for #WorldBuilding 🥳 #Zettelkasten
@naavakaiho @jacmoe Would love to see a graph of your worldbuilding progress eventually -- because Sascha at zettelkasten.de just recently tested graph view for stuff he's working on, and with 2 hops, it's unusable noisy already 😥
Using a separate archive for fiction/world-building and constructing stuff could work better though. Linking neighboring towns, then showing their relation in a graph, for example. Hm!
I've building my archive slowly from research notes in org-roam and I was finding the graph view unusable as well. Recently, based on the post from Scott Scheper on zettelkasten.de , I was inspired to make it more hierarchical. I added empty notes as categories and made each note link to its parent in the tree. It made the graph view so much nicer, closer to how I organized it in my mind! Each subfield got nicely grouped in its own space and I could browse across categories as well.
@jacmoe
Ah that's fair! I agree the link, backlinks, and deft is honestly such a powerful system. I like to browse the graph lately to rediscover my notes and get oriented on big picture, but to each their own, that's the beauty of emacs!
Making each note link to a parent has made it easier to find notes, though, even outside of the graph. Like some notes aren't grouped organically but they're each under a larger category and the connections just come out organically.
@neurolili there are so many possibilities! I agree that clever use of "landing notes" and organizational notes could make it easier to get an overview, organize, and help the organic being. Like how you would nurse a tree or other plant. 🌳 🌿 😁
@neurolili @ctietze @naavakaiho I wasn't planning on using the graph (org-roam-ui) as my main interface, merely as the occasional supplement. I mean, it means that I leave #Emacs , and we don't want too much of that! 😂
I think links, backlinks, tags, and deft - what more do you need? 🤗