Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
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Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#2I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#3I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
I am open to changing my mind and I am looking forward for answers to your question - but I think it is like a click bait - looks interesting - but not really useful.
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#4I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
Mostly to understand the structure of your knowledge base. To search across the KB it is more convenient to use Obsidian/gbrain itself.
Suppose you've been collecting thousands of notes from meetings, feedback from colleagues or code-reviews, "insights" and tips from you wife over the years. Aren't you curious what this KB contains and how it has evolved over time?
So, shortly it is a debug tool for your second brain.
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#5I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
I am open to changing my mind and I am looking forward for answers to your question - but I think it is like a click bait - looks interesting - but not really useful.
I used it to find out that my work notes and personal notes are mixed. Therefore, I decided to split this into separate KBs.
Anyway, I'm just curious about what contained in my Obsidian and gbrain (mostly the latter one).
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#6I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
They look cool, but it is known that they don't add much.
In Obsidian, the local graph has real uses, but the global one is mostly to see structure in your notes and look cool on social media.
I was researching and prototyping a graph like Obsidian's before Obsidian came out, based on the ideas in "how to take smart notes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yUA46ek6M
I believe the direction of UI I was exploring there has more than what graphs currently have, although I didn't have the time to build it out and I saw that the site has been offline for a while.
It was a working tool though.
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#7I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
Mostly to understand the structure of your knowledge base. To search across the KB it is more convenient to use Obsidian/gbrain itself. Suppose you've been collecting thousands of notes from meetings, feedback from colleagues or code-reviews, "insights" and tips from you wife over the years. Aren't you curious what this KB contains and how it has evolved over time? So, shortly it is a debug tool for your second brain…
> Aren't you curious what this KB contains and how it has evolved over time?
Can you give a more specific example of what you have found in this data? I already know what KB contains and how it evolved — I was the one who put things into it, after all.
Just to clarify — I am not being snarky or criticizing your project, I am genuinely curious. I like data visualization.
P.s. Also, as an unrelated tangent, please feel free to ignore it — why did you put a hypothetical wife’s insights into quotation marks?
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#8I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
They look cool, but it is known that they don't add much. In Obsidian, the local graph has real uses, but the global one is mostly to see structure in your notes and look cool on social media. I was researching and prototyping a graph like Obsidian's before Obsidian came out, based on the ideas in "how to take smart notes" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6yUA46ek6M I believe the direction of UI I was exploring there…
Thank you for sharing!
I don’t personally use Zettelkasten but I can see how it benefits from the visualization — the system itself is basically building a graph (cards are nodes and links are edges), it makes sense to have a tool that lets you work with it visually.
It’s a neat demo.
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#9I wanted something like this for my knowledge wiki, nexidion:
https://github.com/HabermannR/Nexidion
Will look how hard it is to combine next week, thanks!
Re: Show HN: Skill for your agent to visualize your gbrain and Obsidian
#10I always wondered what people use these maps for. Does it help you find things faster in your notes?
The graph visualisation itself isn’t much use in my experience.
But being able to tie related notes together, and see at the bottom of one which other notes reference it is interesting.
Even more now that a LLM can take care of the actual tending and pruning.