Idea Papers

Structure

Knowledge graph

Every paper, idea and note declares what it relates to; that is the only structure the library keeps, and the graph is what those declarations look like when drawn.

Edges come from three places: an explicit relation in frontmatter, a citation of a reference, and the topic or tag a document is filed under. Nothing is inferred and nothing is stored twice — change a paper’s frontmatter and the graph follows on the next build.

Topic
9
Paper
2
Idea
0
Research note
0
Reference
33
Tag
10
Relations
19

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Most connected

The nodes with most relations attached, which is usually a good place to start reading.

Most connected papers

Busiest topics

What this is not

The graph is a view of the library, not a search engine over it. It does not rank relevance, it does not learn, and it holds no state: reload the page and the layout is recomputed from the same declarations.

What it does replace is a folder tree. A paper can belong to several topics, cite several references and be picked up by several ideas at once, which a hierarchy cannot express without duplicating files.

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