Relations (like in Notion) not linked references

  • Please don’t open the same topic in multiple threads.
  • If you insist that the topics are different enough, at least link to them, so as to avoid repetitions.
  • From the way you describe the issue, it is obvious that you are still exploring it, identifying the difficulties, but still not suggesting a solid alternative.
    • Logseq addresses many workflows, while you are experimenting with just one.
    • The relationship between philosophy and a video about philosophy is not on equal terms.
      • The video depends on philosophy, while philosophy doesn’t depend on the video.
      • This is because they are different entities:
        • Philosophy is a general concept.
          • As such, it can participate in multiple graphs.
        • While the video about philosophy is a specific instance of video.
          • It can participate only in a few graphs where videos are meaningful.
          • If I have a whole collection of videos on philosophy, should not link philosophy to each one of them.
            • That would produce plenty of useless noise.
            • Should rather tag them as members of that collection and link only the collection to philosophy.
              • And even that link should be nothing more than a simple reference.
      • Peer relationships are among same entities:
        • You can have peer relationships among videos.
        • You can have peer relationships among concepts.
        • But you cannot have peer relationships between a concept and a video.
          • Forcing a one-directional reference into a full relationship causes at least as many problems as doing the inverse.
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