Hi @JamesT,
Yes adding links between cards in the tabletop view is definitely something we’ve been thinking about –homogenising ExcaliBrain concepts with something like Blender’s node preview. Seeing a complete card, w/ relationships and metadata in a freeform view would be very powerful. One of the challenges with this view is scaling. It may work great with 10, 20 or 30 cards but what happens with 100s / 1000s of cards – performance and well as keeping everything spatially consistent will be a challenge. That’s where Graph view comes in.
Graph view is designed to be an exploratory overview of your entire knowledge base, which helps you to identify which areas of your knowledge are less populated than others, discover unlinked ‘thoughts’ cards, apply filters to help you visualise areas of your knowledge base which can be improved and more. Once you hone into a parent node, you can use colors to distinguish between nodes and this help you actively learn them. This is just the start of Graph view and we have many more upcoming improvements which will help you utilise this more:
- Controlling your view depth – seeing more than one level deep in parent nodes
- Always on Card Titles – more easily identify which nodes are which
- Metadata nodes – see which metadata, like a tag, is shared between cards
- Friends – see how your friend’s notes are interwoven with yours → e.g. a friend of yours might have shared lots of recipes cards etc.
Thanks again for sharing all of this with us James, these discussions help us make Supernotes even better 