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Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 1, 2023 at 08:34 PM
Another fan of the local graph, here. I’ve recently hyped the local graph’s value by including in my daily note template links to the notes for “this day a year ago” and “this day two years ago”. By tweaking the local graph depth settings to include links to those older notes in the display, I can see in the local graph for any given day not only was important to me that day but was important to me in the same time slice up to two years ago. It’s both fun and serendipitous.
For serendipity, I’ve always found the “wander” feature in TheBrain, which randomly (?) flips notes from the database in front of you at a nice leisurely pace. You can stop the wandering at any point and use it as the top level of a personal notes rabbit hole. Fun.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 2, 2023 at 09:22 AM
That’s an interesting idea! I’ve only just discovered this Local Graph thing, but I’m looking forward to experimenting with it.
Amusingly, as you probably already know, there are several different random note plugins available for Obsidian!
Paul Korm wrote:
Another fan of the local graph, here. I’ve recently hyped the local
>graph’s value by including in my daily note template links to the notes
>for “this day a year ago” and “this day two years ago”. By tweaking the
>local graph depth settings to include links to those older notes in the
>display, I can see in the local graph for any given day not only was
>important to me that day but was important to me in the same time slice
>up to two years ago. It’s both fun and serendipitous.
>
>For serendipity, I’ve always found the “wander” feature in TheBrain,
>which randomly (?) flips notes from the database in front of you at a
>nice leisurely pace. You can stop the wandering at any point and use
>it as the top level of a personal notes rabbit hole. Fun.
>
>
Posted by Skywatcher
Nov 3, 2023 at 01:58 PM
Amontillado wrote:
>Mellel is in Israel. There’s a free trial. It’s not a bad
>thing to support at the moment.
>
Could we leave politics out of it though ? Cause there are also plenty of people who would say Palestine is not a bad thing to support at the moment…Let us just stick to the hardship of CRIMPING on this forum..
Posted by Amontillado
Nov 3, 2023 at 08:48 PM
Please accept my apologies. My only dog in the hunt is a general wish for peace. I did not seek to open debate either way and do not have well informed opinions, anyway.
Skywatcher wrote:
>
>Amontillado wrote:
>>Mellel is in Israel. There’s a free trial. It’s not a bad
>>thing to support at the moment.
>>
>
>Could we leave politics out of it though ? Cause there are also plenty
>of people who would say Palestine is not a bad thing to support at the
>moment…Let us just stick to the hardship of CRIMPING on this
>forum..
Posted by Dellu
Nov 4, 2023 at 05:19 AM
Paul Korm wrote:
I enjoy the spark of a new idea or insight. It happens a lot. But,
>not because of any computer or software. It’s reading, talking to
>interesting people, day dreaming, and taking long walks that work, not
>machines.
That is exactly what worked for me as well. I get ideas when I read and listen other people’s ideas (or my own former notes).
Once a have small pieces of ideas, I tend to easily extend and elaborate using visual tools.
For me, it is always Scapple.
Just double clicking on the blank page: drop the idea there; then, branch it to another directions without any restrictions from the software. I often don’t put them to maps and connections.
Scapple provides absolute freedom.