Something like this is very cool and looks like it helps solve that problem. Does it have a roam style graph? Can't see one from screenshots.
Currently we don't have a roam style overview graph.
While a graph can be satisfying to look at, it also encourages striving for "perfection" in your notes. The graph wants you to create a masterpiece.
That's not what Bytebase is about. Bytebase is for the scratch notes core to your daily work - some of which you'll want to refine and organize later. Getting things down is messy and that's how it should be. After the "jot down", Bytebase helps you stay just a little more organized over time by making it easy to organize/categorize in small steps (and giving you flexibility through multiple parents and infinite hierarchy).
Re: navigating around - our approach uses keyboard shortcuts to quickly jump to and hone in on the bytes you need. One way we do this in Bytebase is with Speed Dial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3lS5J71HEM) - which lets you jump to a location in one keystroke.
(a) What does this tell me?
(b) How will I act on this?
I still have no answers to those questions, and while I still think the graphs are cool, and still create similar graphs from my bespoke system, I still don't think they actually give me anything.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.
You use Obsidian ... how is it different from a wiki with auto-linking?
Do you have any plain-file (i.e. non-database) wiki in mind which provides auto-linking and simple tagging?
But what you are saying here is "Yes, it's basically just a wiki, but using plain text files underneath, and without using a specific app or database".
This isn't a criticism, it's just me hunting for understanding from the huge heap of hype. Every description I read seems to lead me to:
(a) It's just a wiki, and
(b) It's not doing what Luhmann says his Zettelkasten did.
So I'm finding the excitement very mysterious, and keen to find out what I'm missing.
Maintaining a proper wiki by oneself is too much overhead, but Obsidian is a nice extra on top of standard markdown notes.
That's the vibe I'm getting from nearly everyone, and yet there are a few articles out there that say that the Zettelkasten absolutely was not simply a wiki. It was more.
I've found a few explicit statements to that effect, but, ironically, I can't find them just now, but Luhmann talked about "having a conversation" with his Zettelkasten. Simply implementing and/or using a wiki is clearly not the same thing ... that's a personal knowledge repository.
So I think people are still missing something.
My understanding is that Zettelkasten is a way of using a wiki. One aspect is "small atomic notes/pages". Maybe you use your personal wiki that way, maybe you don't. Another aspect are "sequences of notes" (Folgezettel) but I'm not sure if that is a side effect of using a physical slip box or a useful concept.
Overall, it seems to be illusive like Agile. You will always find someone who claims you are doing it wrong.
That's actually precisely what it is for me. It's just an easy to use, lightweight, wiki that uses markdown and has backlinks. Your pages are stored in regular old markdown files, so you can do whatever you want for syncing if that matters.
If I weren't using Obsidian I'd probably be using a lightweight note taking app like Bear, or maybe a personal Wiki. It just feels like a good mix of the two that works for me though.
> That's actually precisely what it is for me.
See my reply here ...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24118601
I think people who are treating their new shiny systems as a wiki are missing the underlying, most important point of a true Zettelkasten.