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On second brains

2022-03-08 22:10 PST

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I've been tending to my digital garden (or second brain, if you will). When I started, most of my knowledge was disconnected - standalone facts that I needed to remember that I knew something about before I could remember the particulars. I've been working to connect my notes together.

Here's the difference: the image on the right is my knowledge graph as of Thursday (2022-03-04), on the left is a snapshot from tonight (2022-03-8).

The colors are:

white: a note
grey: a note that's been linked from somewhere, but that doesn't exist
brown: tags
blue: attachments (e.g. images or PDFs)

Knowledge graph before and after

One the left, you'll notice that nodes are much more highly connected. It's a lot easier to explore ideas when they're all linked together.

The disconnected nodes are virtually all daily logs from my private folder from when I was using Dendron. In Dendron, the naming convention provided natural linking, but in Obsidian, linking is explicit. I do wish there was a way to link to the parent of a folder. For example, I usually have something like



.
├── topic.md
└── topic/
    ├── subtopic1
    └── subtopic2

I use deeper nesting where it makes sense.

The first graph fits neatly on the screen. The second graph is much harder to see. You can make out trends and large hubs, but I think I'm going to need a larger screen to go further.