How the graph view could improve creativity

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With many tools for thought, there have been criticisms of the graph view. “It looks like a garbage dump” is what some people say.

But what people are missing is the purpose of a graph view, to generate new ideas and connections. If this is your goal, then the graph view is amazing.

This is a screenshot of a graph visualization tool, Cosma (from Arthur Perret)

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There are a few things in this UI that make the graph view useful for creativity:

  • graph and notes are side by side
    • currently logseq only shows you the graph view by itself . an improvement would be allowing shift+click to open each node on the right side
    • graph view has visual features (colors, strokes) that denote certain relationships and interactivity like focusing and highlighting certain relationships

There is great potential for logseq to become a tool for creative thinking.

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The obsidian graph is so much smoother for me, just zooming in and out seems so much more high quality. Dragging and clicking nodes needs to be more smoother.

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Wow, Cosma looks really powerful. That would be great to have something like this implemented in LogSeq

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Hi. feat: add ability to change graph forces via UI by mp-v2 · Pull Request #10755 · logseq/logseq · GitHub shipped with the 0.10.6 release. Maybe it resolves your request

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