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I always feel like "creating relationships" in a tool misses the point in a way. Those relationships need to be _in your head_ in order to be useful, not in som
by m0zg 6y ago
I always feel like "creating relationships" in a tool misses the point in a way. Those relationships need to be _in your head_ in order to be useful, not in some tool, or else you're spending too much time and energy on maintaining the graph, and derive little to no value from having it.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoThings can have a lot of relationships - databases for instance, it's good to have something remember it for you, and to show other people.
- m0zg 6y agoDatabases operate at a much lower semantic level though, so it's not a good analogy IMO.
- chadcmulligan 6y agoThere are many examples: Biochemical pathways: https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_education/pathways.htm https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_ed... Financial market trades Suppliers for the parts of a car Electrical networks Data networks Neural networks Metabolic networks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_network Electronic components Fields of mathematics History of mathematics / politics etc
- haroldship 6y agoAfter having tried Roam, as well as Zettelkasten and Bullet Journalling, I'm starting to think you're right. I keep searching for a magic tool to help me organise all my reading and research. But I think it's about 90% procrastination.
- theon144 6y agoThe beauty of Roam-style approach is that most of the work of updating the graph is implicit - you just reference a tag or a keyword, and it automatically gets connected with all other instances of that keyword (with context). And explicit block referencing is near effortless too, though I do agree that there you can run into issues with the structure becoming obsolete and useless over time (I know I did).