I have a few “index” or “Maps of Content MOC” pages, and each of them has a ton of links. They often overwhelm my graph, especially if I go beyond 1 degree of separation in the “depth” setting. But by filtering them out of my graph, what remains is a much more meaningful graph.
Here’s an example: I have a page people index that contains a link to every page that I have for an individual person. Since this has hundreds of links, it takes a domineering position in my graph. And these aren’t really very useful in the graph; the connections don’t represent any meaningful connections between the content of those pages. They are merely all pages of the same type.I suppose I could delete them, but they it’s a handy an a jumping off point or as an overview, and sometimes I “pin” it in Preview mode, and click on various names to review the status of the pages.
To fix this, I insert a set of search items between parentheses, with a - in front, and that filters out all those index nodes graphs (local or global):
-(000 Home OR 010 People Index OR "#literaturenote")
This excludes both of those index pages, giving me must more interesting results. Note that I’ve also included a common tag, to exclude that as well, while still toggling “Tags” on in the graph setting.