Threads
About Threads
This is my thread of notes. A Digital Garden? A Second Brain? I don’t know…but it’s published notes I’m sharing from my PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) system. Shorter, evergreen, interlinked notes that are distinct from dated blog posts. Notes grow and change over time, and link freely to each other, and to blog posts.
I have been producing a PKM system in an Obsidian vault for many years, which has a graph that shows the interconnection of notes. For me personally, it was missing my blog posts, and my blog posts were missing my notes. I am in the process of converging my blog and my vault so that they result in joined up thinking, influenced by Simon Späti’s implementation of this and an amazing depth of content that helped me implement this.
This is predominantly for my own benefit - I have had this annoyance with having two places to write, with most of it being done in Obsidian before having to do it all again in Visual Studio Code for my blog. This convergence should help me to write more and often, we shall see. In time I will write about how I transitioned the blog (which is now fully managed by Obsidian), whilst still being rendered by Hugo. For now, it’s a bit weird because I need to work through adding links.
Threads below is experimental: an interactive map of how notes and blog posts connect. This is the first pass. It is new, incomplete, and will evolve as more content moves through the Obsidian publish pipeline.
How to use Threads
You can explore the graph by dragging it around and zooming in. If you click on the current node, it will zoom and center the graph on that node. (to do). Clicking on a node type in the legend will highlight just that type in the graph. Drag a node around and its connected nodes will move with it, and you get to see the physics in action (fun right?). Click on a node and it will open that blog / note / page up.