The idea is to discover areas in your knowledge base that haven’t been reviewed in a longer time. With a digital garden analogy, it’s similar to looking around for weed and fixing them. Some implementation thoughts: Custom slider that filters by how long you haven’t accessed a note (looked at it); Should you need to explicitly say that you’ve reviewed a note or not? (being explicit would mean clicking a button, for example); I like Trello’s card aging power-up. It’s visual and fun to look at.

It’s great! Can’t wait this plugin is applied for Obsidian. I also have some addition. How if make “note/file status” that gives a sign for: This note is needed to revisit or reviewed (as your idea) This note is needed to reflect (since we just have created it, but not yet to think deeply about it) This note is needed to continue (not finished yet) This “note status” can be seen in the graph view by note node color. Let’s say: Green node => for healthy note (finished note, already reflected, frequently linked, reviewed for recent time) Yellow node -> For need maintaining (need to review, need to reflect, or need to work on it again) Red node -> For unused/old note, empty note (since we created backlink for it). The note, which is first created and empty, it will have a red. When filled, it will get yellow. If we are sure that the note is done and already reflected, then we can click the note icon (at the corner of note) and it will get green (click back to get yellow again, if unsure). And the note will be yellow again if no longer used/reviewed. For note that has a few links to other notes (as Fovea’s idea), it will fastly become yellow. For note that has a lot of links, it’ll be very slow to become yellow. Also for a note that already frequently reviewed, it’ll be very slow to become yellow again (it’s like our brain memorizing system!) I have another idea. It’s “note comment.” We can give a short comment on our note. So in the graph view, when we click a note node once, it will pop up our comment on that note. I think it’ll be helpful to remind us of what needs to do with that note (sometimes I forget since there’s a lot of notes). double click the note to open the note as usual. PS: Thanks a lot, the Obsidian team. I’m so grateful. Obsidian help a lot to do my Quran project.

This “note status” scenario really resonates with me. I’m using page icons in Notion for that: [Screenshot from 2020-07-01 10-41-54@2x] Basically some custom icons that I upload to each note: tree → There’s a bunch of stuff written in that note. growing → There’s some of the stuff in there, but it could be expanded upon. sprout → There’s like a sentence or two written in there. When I look into my “Topic Forest” (idea borrowed from Valentin Perez), I can quickly asses what I will get as a result before I click on the note. The closest I can get to it now is to add something like 1-5 at the beginning of note’s name. This would be helpful, as it would allow me to add emojis to h1 tags to achieve similar results: [image] Use H1 or YAML property "title" instead of or in addition to filename as display name Feature requests I’m interested in a setting that would use a note’s H1 or front-matter title instead of or in addition to the filename as the display name everywhere: links, backlinks, graph view, search, etc. How would this be useful: For users who use IDs as filenames or who generally want more concise filenames Use illegal filename characters and emojis in note titles More readable graph, search, backlinks, etc. Other assumptions/thoughts/questions: Is this global or feature-specific? By feature-specif… I’ve also thought about abusing tags for the purpose (add #1-5 to a note, allowing me to search for all notes that need to be worked on), but from a discovery perspective, it’d still require me to click on a note to see the which of the tags I’ve associated with it.

Would really like to see this plugin. :slight_smile:

I’d love to be able to add similar icons to Obsidian notes. The icons could appear next to the notes in the left-side menu. You’ve given me the idea to create three similar folders (sprouts, growing, trees).

That’s a great idea. Maybe this could come together with a spaced repetition functionality. Two birds with one stone.

God idea, but being able to disregard journal notes would be essential to me.

I have old notes that no longer make sense because I forgot the context. So this idea would go along with a more general system of reminders, e.g., to finish a thought that was jotted down in haste but is valuable enough to think more thoroughly about later. It would in essence be a physiological state monitor (of busyness or distractability) to prevent forgetting the train of thought that makes the brief note discernable.

I still think this is a great plugin idea. I also submitted a feature request to make this kind of gardening easier to do within the Obsidian interface: [image] Show 'time since last edited' in File Explorer (note age) Feature requests TL;DR: In the file explorer, show the approximate number of minutes / hours / days / weeks / months / years - since I last edited a note, e.g. 21m, 4h, 6d, 2w, 3m, 1y Use case or problem When I want to start writing, I sort my Inbox by modified time (new to old). This helps me see at a glance “notes I’ve been working on recently” vs. “notes I worked on in the recent past” vs. “notes I’ve long neglected and may need attention or deletion.” The problem is: I can’t actually see the age of these n…

Would show hot & cold notes in a much more intuitive and fast way IMHO [image] Graph colourisation according to brain entropy Plugins ideas [Screenshot 2021-07-04 at 11.02.23] Let’s say I wrote a lot about “Dark matter” recently, which is connected to “Physic”, so these nodes are “hotter” while I didn’t write for a while on “Politic” and “Capitalism” so these are “colder”. See the idea? As we talk about hot/cold data, here hot/cold thoughts, showing brain entropy slight_smile

I like the idea a lot, and it was quick and fun to whip up a version in Templater. It will open a selection box to choose from a random assortment of old notes which need reviewing, weighting the notes so that older notes have a higher chance of being selected. You can specify not to show notes that have been worked on in the last X weeks. The frontmatter field name is configurable. If it doesn’t already exist, the file created time will be used for the date selection. When you choose the note, it will open that note and update the frontmatter “last reviewed” field for you. You can specify all folders or any subset of folders to choose from, so you can disregard journal notes per @ljantzen suggestion. [image] The configuration options are: // === Configuration settings === // The frontmatter field you want to store the last reviewed date const YAML_FIELD = 'last_reviewed' // How many results to return from the search const NUMBER_OF_RESULTS = 5 // Only show notes that were reviewed at least this many weeks ago const ONLY_NOTES_OLDER_THAN_X_WEEKS = 2 // Weight older results. A value of 5 means the oldest note is 5x more likely to appear than the newest note const WEIGHT_OLDER_NOTES = 5 // Select notes only from these folders (and subfolders). To select all notes, use an empty array [] const FOLDERS = ['1 Projects', '2 Areas', 'Testing'] And you can find the full script here. Just copy this into any .md file and set it as a template for Templater. You can assign it to a hotkey if you like. https://gist.github.com/alangrainger/5870d30ccbf22713a03d3bbc42e61001 ____script_ Review old notes.js <%* // === Configuration settings === // The frontmatter field you want to store the last reviewed date const YAML_FIELD = 'last_reviewed' // How many results to return from the search const NUMBER_OF_RESULTS = 5 // Only show notes that were reviewed at least this many weeks ago This file has been truncated. show original

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I still think this is a great plugin idea. I also submitted a feature request to make this kind of gardening easier to do within the Obsidian interface: