...Markdown Mapper, and is a command-line utility, written in R (see below) and open-sourced under the GPLv2 license, that reverse-engineers concept maps from plaintext notes.
How it works
Markdown Mapper treats each line / paragraph of text as a node in the network. It goes through the text, file-by-file and then line-by-line, making inferences about which lines are related to which other lines by looking at tags and text structure (e.g., with the indentation of list-items). As it goes, it creates an edge list, a table with three columns: From, To, and Relationship, where the From and To columns are lines of text from the input file(s), and the Relationship column is the relationship between them (e.g., Parent, List item, Tag, Contains Type of Thought, etc.). It then uses the qgraph package to draw a quick-view graph from the edge list, and the igraph package to create an adjacency matrix (a tablular version of an edge list, where the row and column names are lines of text from the input file(s), and each cell has a 1 wherever the lines have a relationship), if the user has asked for one.
As it goes along, Markdown Mapper also hard-wraps the text Hard-wrapping = inserting a line break. every 20 or so characters, in order to make the text nodes more rectangular (this keeps each node from displaying as one long line of text).
I am curious what other systems you use and to what purpose.My system is only starting to evolve. Hesitant to put too much weight on it when I know that Obsidian could be very different in 6 months.-sphere (July 09, 2020, 10:10 AM)
So I have WriteMonkey 3 sharing some files with Obsidian. They are in the WM database with the synced copy accessible to both. In Obsidian those files are linked to many other notes related to the MSS being written.
I prefer writing in WriteMonkey and its incredibly convenient to have all the related gubbins networked together and visible in Obsidian.
I also have the folder with those texts open in ProWritingAid simply to aid analysis as I progress.
Naturally I also write notes in other apps, especially on Android, and they're transferred into the folders of the Obsidian vaults.-Dormouse (July 09, 2020, 01:38 PM)
Most of what you listed can already be "in" a plaintext noteAnd one of the aspects I like is that the note itself isn't "in" the system. It can simultaneously be "in" many systems so long as conflicting changes are avoided. Work in one program, save before switching to another.-Nod5 (July 09, 2020, 03:12 AM)
Obsidian looks as if it will grow into a great spider, with any number of mites on its back, but lays no claim to own any of the notes.-Dormouse (July 09, 2020, 04:21 AM)