Colored links would be a game changer for a Zettelkasten!

[cristian]

@TGT

• links to follow-up notes (which further explain another aspect of the original note or simply continue the trail of thought, adding another atomic piece of information)

• cross-referential links (which link to a note that, while being in a completely different context, shares the same abstract idea of the original note)

• links to overview/hub notes (which serve as hub where all related notes are gathered in order to get an overview on everything that I’ve written about a particular topic)

super Interesting kinds of link types…

I’m very curious about how an overview/hub note looks like, and how cross-referential links could work?

There are several discussion about ‘coloring links’, ‘naming them’, having link categories, and things like that.

Add support for link types

I think as superset of this feature, having link types makes sense too for better organisation. I used to use TheBrain (previously PersonalBrain) which had this link type feature among nodes. Granted it was mainly a mind-map type app, whereas the graph is one feature in Obsidian but I think since the core of Obsidian is still notes and the connections between them, it makes sense. Link types can help establish certain relationships that we cannot do now like, Parent - Child Sibling (default a…