Thread by @codexeditor

Seeing is greater than knowledge.

Seeing is the faculty of knowing, knowing in action, the ability to perceive relation, it precedes and guides action.

Artists have "an eye". Musicians have "an ear".

We see before we know. We see TO know.

But how can we see knowledge?

We can see without tools, but the right tools can help us see better.

What is the essence of sight? Spatial relation.

If you can't relate text in space it becomes much harder to see connections ... to make adjustments ... to share your insight.

Seeing is believing.

But seeing is so much powerful when we can see more than text ... when we can see text with pictures ... videos ... solid objects ...

Seeing becomes tangible. We can touch it. We can shape it.

We can record it, preserve it, restore it, share it.

Tools like the graph can help us to see ... to see the connections hidden behind words, between thoughts ...

But to see connections we need REAL graphs. Not LINKS from one page to another but RELATIONS.

[[BACKLINKS]] fall far, far short of that.

Entities + Relations = GRAPHS

We need a space where we can zoom out, where we can see the 10,000 foot view.

See the events of an entire life in space.

See two lives overlap.

We need to be unshackled from [[BACKLINKS]] and free to make REAL relationships between people, ideas, things.

For the graph to be meaningful YOU need to be able to define its nodes and define its edges.

The graph of the world is so much more than [[PAGES]] and {{blocks}}.

We need tools which let us build these graphs DIRECTLY from our texts.

Graphs should come from where we live.