Extracting more understanding from the graph view: Local landscapes

Maintaining the usefullness of a graph view becomes challanging as the number of nodes increases. To complement the current global view, I suggest a local view as follows:

In global view click on a node of interest. Select filter-to-X-neighbours where X is chooseable or a setting. This then only displays the node of interest (NOI) and neighbours X hops away. Crucially, if you then click on one of the NOI’s neighbours the graph recenters on that node (which becomes the new NOI) and all nodes X hops away. Video @13.44 as an exmple This particular GUI implementation is a bit ugly and clunky imho but it does illustrate the idea.

Basically this adds a “local landscape” view of your connections to the existing global view.

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This is now implemented. See 0.8.4 and above!

How to switch from the two modes then.

Oh I’ve known how to do this. Sorry for the disturbance.

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