Tree Layout (Graph)

Similar in spirit to Outline Layout - I think it’d be great to have a variant of graph view that renders nodes arranged as a visual tree based on parent card assignments.

Interesting idea, to have the nodes arranged in a more structured, hierarchical flow. Are there any particular use cases where this would benefit your workflow day-to-day? Or just for fun?

For me it would be very useful when structuring features in programming or have a better view of connections in the law context

… or to have a better overview when breaking down big tasks into chunks or steps. Would be nice as well.

Yeah, essentially a n-ary tree arrangement, where the active card is the root, and all children are arranged in branches growing downward from the root (as in typical comp-sci diagrams of tree structure).

For me, it’d be useful for quickly getting a sense of the complete hierarchy I’m creating. In my case it mostly represents dependencies/elaborations of ideas. It’s just a “visual” version of the outline view.

A more novel feature would be to connect this into the graph/more free form network of notes—like, perhaps any point in the tree can link out to a broader graph (neatly arranged in some way or dynamically triggerable so that the tree itself remains clear and navigable). Separate notion, but clustering in graph view based on filters would also be a great feature.

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Robert Burton’s table of contents diagram in The Anatomy of Melancholy gives a more concrete idea of what I’m imagining (though oriented with branches growing vertically instead of Burton’s horizontal growth arrangement):

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