Not mentioned in the video: The ExcaliBrain plugin is clearly based on The Brain software, both in terms of types of links between notes, and how it shows them. The name suggests so too, and the plugin author names The Brain as source of inspiration. I used The Brain as desktop interface from 1997 until 2004-ish

I disagree with Nicole van der Hoeven about commenting out explicit relationships so that the plugin will visualise them but the note won't show the link. The notes should always show all links I explicitly set, that's the whole point. Machine inferred links are a different matter, which deserve a toggle as they are suggestions made to me. Links are my real work in my notes.

Setting explicit links (parent, child, friends) is similar to [[Drie links in een Notie 20220228111240]] after Soren Bjornstadt, where I aim to link from each note to one higher level of abstraction note, to one lower level of abstraction but more concrete note, and one related note at the same level. This creates 'chains' of 4 notes with a content-based implied order.

I strongly dislike the parent-child-sibling vocabulary as it implies an order of creation. Parents first, children from parents. I.e. abstract concepts first. This is not how it mostly works. Abstract notions are often created from, intuited from, the scaffolding of less abstract ones.

Nicole also talks about this implied hierarchy, and mentions a higher level type of use, which is adding more semantics to links. E.g. to sketch out lines of argumentation (A reinforces / contradicts B) (for which the three link approach just mentioned is probably a hybrid). This is the type of linking that Tinderbox allows. She hasn't used it that way but suggests it's likely the most valuable use case. I think that is true. It's where linking becomes the work again, as opposed to lazy or automatic linking between notes.

Def to experiment with this, but need to change the terms used as is made possible by the plugin.

(update, I almost verbatim used this first impressions dump for a blogpost https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/09/the-brain-comes-to-obsidian-as-excalibrain/ That's a nice development)

https://roambrain.com/how-my-road-led-to-roam/