Sorry for the vague title, I have a very specific use-case that’s hard to put in one question.
I’m researching how different software platforms implement different accessibility features. Their approaches can be very different, so I also want to be able to represent what underlying use case each solves (what I’m calling “capabilities”). Each note would contain info on the specific capability or feature, and I’d like to find ways to make the relationships between them easy to navigate.
What I’m hoping I can get Obsidian to do:
- Let me make notes for each feature/capability and mark them as a different “type” (core capability, feature on iOS, feature in Firefox, etc)
- Relate features back to core capabilities, or in some cases, relate features to other features they’re built on top of (i.e., in React Native, X feature is supported by Y feature on iOS, and Z feature on Android)
- Crucially, a feature may relate to many capabilities, and vice versa. This is what makes this really hard to manage in a single document!
My hope is that this structure will make it easy to update as I learn, and then really easy to re-reference information when I want to write about it later (I can choose to write about a specific feature, or to write about the capability and how different platforms handle it).
From what I’ve seen, there’s two Obsidian features that may help:
- The graph, which will indicate links between documents, and I may be able to highlight it in different colors by creating different search queries for the “types” of document?
- The canvas, which would allow me to manually draw these links as desired and embed sections of docs in a diagram. Not as ideal as just being able to tag relationships, but probably better than anything else I’ve seen so far.
If anyone has any advice on approaching this, I’d really appreciate it! Obsidian has a lot of features and I feel like I’ve only just scratched the surface.