GraphView to show real connections

[Axden]

Hi, I’m new to this community and although I’m fascinated with Logseq, I have a question.

What I need is to be able to create statements with links in Journals. For example:

• Alex was at the park

• Juan was in the yard

• Miguel was at the park

And I would like GraphView to show real connections between Alex and the park, and between Miguel and the park.

However, when I write in Journals, it creates a radial node where everything emanates from the date, and I can’t see real connections except through the date node.

So I would like to know if there is a way to directly link the park with Alex and also link the park with Miguel, in a way that is visually represented in GraphView — but done in a practical and effortless way while writing in Journals.

[mentaloid]

Welcome.

• Consider reading How to leverage Logseq's linked structure? - #7 by mentaloid (or the whole thread).
  • Most relevant point:

    Graphs don’t benefit from journals, but from interlinked pages.

• It is possible to edit a page (e.g. to add a relation) without leaving the journal, by hovering on a link to that page.
• A relevant tool that may or may not help: Macro to auto-embed a block to the page of a tag
  • Could be adapted to copy a block instead of embedding it.

[eldelacajita]

Yeah, I would love that too.

Having a journal-centric app with a graph view that doesn’t show relations established via the journal… feels like a bit of a let down.

Resorting to putting everything in pages just to leverage the graph view, on the other hand, doesn’t feel right either.

It’s like the journal and the graph view follow different concepts or come from different apps.