While editing a note, it split into 14 child notes due to the soft limit. One note (B14) is linked to other notes and should be the parent of both these and the original note (A).
Current structure:
A –> B01...B14
B14 <–> Newly linked notes
Proposed structure:
B14 –> Newly linked notes
B14 –> A
I found a post from 2022 about avoiding cyclical hierarchies to prevent issues with the Outline. Has this been resolved? Should I keep both A –> B14 and B14 –> A links to reflect my thought process, or will this mess with the database? Any suggestions or alternatives are welcome! Thanks!
Sorry, I’m new to SN so I couldn’t tell you if the cyclic hierarchy problem has been solved.
I’m not sure I understand the problem you’re trying to solve (why B14 has to be the parent of A and B1…13), but for a note split into sub-notes I’d make only the parent note (or the first sub-note) appear in the outline and set everything else to ‘visible’ (rather than ‘priority’): the outline would be clearer, and there’d be no cycle.
There should be no issue creating cyclical relationships, all issues with that and the outline have been resolved a while back. However the “issue” with cyclic relationships remains that you will not be able to choose which is the “root” (because a circle has no beginning), so you will need to be happy with whichever the algorithm puts at the top.