Don’t take it as complaints, just my input which I hope could be useful to you. I don’t think there’s a way to show only the local graph, right? At the moment this is how my graph looks
I’m not sure if anything can be done to rearrange it better, or how much notes you have in your space. But if you think it would help you, I could process my space so you get the structure without my data for testing.
Regarding Anytype, it’s yet another PKM tool. I tried it to share a knowledgebase with my partner, who really likes their UI, feels Apple-like to me. It seems really all in on structured relations, so for example a Book object type has Relation Author which accepts only an object of type Space Member or Human. And it gets special treatment compared to just linking the author from description.
The features of their graph that seem interesting to me after the first few minutes:
- When hovering on a node, connections to and from it are highlighted
- Anything which is not an immediate neighbor is a bit faded
- Connections are directional, there is an arrowhead drawn in the middle of it from page containing the link to the referenced one
- For a regular link it’s only an arrow, for a named Relation, the text is displayed over the connector (we can have something equivalent since Index wikilinks in frontmatter strings by Maarrk · Pull Request #1066 · silverbulletmd/silverbullet · GitHub but I doubt enough people use it to be worth the effort)
- Objects tend to have emojis assigned to them, but I see we can have colours, just haven’t configured it myself
- When hovering on a node, a small window is displayed giving more space for information about it, a bit like Internal link/page previews · Issue #457 · silverbulletmd/silverbullet · GitHub - maybe some code reuse could happen? I saved it for last because it does obscure the relations described above.
- EDIT: Adding that dragging on empty space moves the view (like in the Plug now), but dragging on a node moves it around with force simulation, so it can be untangled
I already have a queue of other Plug ideas to work on, but I’m excited about this one and happy to help.
PS: Almost forgot, but the biggest node with the most links is, of course undefined 