I was thinking about the Venn diagram dilemma that would happen when trying to visualize all notes and tags within folders.
The solution could actually be quite simple: You leave the tags outside the folder areas.
This would give them a graphical interface function.
The following rules should suffice to customize the Graph View in this respect:
- Add a force that attracts notes from the same subfolder
- Add a force that repels tags from the folder scope
- Ensure that a subfolder stays within its parent folder scope
I think it would also be possible to achieve a reasonably deterministic arrangement of the nodes with the help of an additional force. (Graph-positional locking - #3 by Mutzu)
- This force would have to move notes (or tags) with similar words or similar word meanings in the title in a similar direction. This means that a target point or direction would have to be calculated deterministically from the title.
The result might look something like this:
