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Visualise article connections with graph map

New Feature Addition · Quick editor / explorer · Created by LadySerin
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Do you have a problem finding the right article - say a building within a city, or a head of state you can't quite remember the name of? Do you usually go into the article to find and open it, which takes you away from your current article?   Or, do you - like me - suffer with a terrible memory where out of sight is quite literally out of mind?
 

Current Problem

In order to explore the world the way my players will, I tend to start from the homepage and navigate through links to ensure articles are visible and connected. This can take time and is extremely manual. In addition, finding out where articles connect can help with the creative process and spark new ideas, which tend to come from this exploration. As an ADHD-DM, my working memory is pretty bad, and visualizing the information I have to use is very helpful. This results in a lot of 'off WorldAnvil' work creating mind maps and charts to plan my next flurry of articles.  

Proposed Solution

Within the article dashboard, it would be extremely interesting to see a map of article connections (GraphVis or similar) which could comprise of templated links (i.e. Owner of Item). Each article would represent a node on the map - bonus points if they are colour coded - and connections between nodes are created from the inclusion of one of these templated links. It might be possible to extend this to 'mentioned' links too, but I would imagine this would quickly become cumbersome. The ability to move nodes to m, and possibly create new ones would also be useful - creating a blank template with the node name for future use.  

Other Uses

There are other opportunities with this kind of feature - a similar feature to Family Trees has been suggested and the implementation of this would support having player-facing maps too. However, I think the strength of this tool would be in the automation, where planning articles and sessions becomes much more visual.   This could also be used within RPG sessions to provide players with further lore surrounding articles that are shared and help show the connections built between locations, organizations, people, and items.   Would love to get the communities thoughts on this too - do you think you would benefit from a visual layout of articles as well as categories?

The Team's Response

This is something we can explore, I do agree with some of the down voting comments. whatever is created should actually add value and be easy to understand, filtering by type/tags etc would go a long way but... that requires actually good tagging or it will be simply chaos.
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Current score

42/300 Votes · +7510 points

Votes Cast

  • +50

    by Rayna Fairbell
    on 2022-03-07 20:44

  • +300

    by Bubski_McBoo
    on 2022-03-07 17:21
    As a visual thinker, and someone that constantly refers to graph view in Obsidian (where I now write articles before I post them on WA) I want to fully YES PLEASE this proposed feature, especially if, like I've experienced with Obsidian, the connections seen can be filtered, for example by tag, by article type or category. This probably wouldn't be for everyone, but for visual users like myself such a thing would make workflow that much more... flowey? Flowy? Runny? Ew. You know what I mean.

  • +300

    by PedroCarvalho
    on 2022-03-07 01:07

  • +20

    by Mahdi Avendesora
    on 2022-03-06 11:52

  • +10

    by SrSpaceCadet
    on 2022-03-06 03:39

  • +20

    by snowriddenwolf
    on 2022-03-06 01:17

  • +300

    by Oa10712
    on 2022-03-05 05:06

  • +50

    by A Frightened Cthulhu
    on 2022-03-04 15:24

  • +100

    by Dragolithic
    on 2022-03-04 02:27

  • +100

    by Zoomer101
    on 2022-03-02 22:16

  • +300

    by A Filthy Kitten
    on 2022-03-01 19:08

  • +300

    by Crossarius
    on 2022-03-01 13:04

  • +300

    by ZeLordDude
    on 2022-02-27 22:17

  • +300

    by LucasDLK
    on 2022-02-26 20:36

  • +100

    by Laria
    on 2022-02-23 18:31

  • +200

    by Jontaro
    on 2022-02-23 13:25

  • +300

    by Sach2000
    on 2022-02-22 20:30

  • +200

    by Pookypie2000
    on 2022-02-21 23:12

  • +300

    by Bluboram
    on 2022-02-19 02:26

  • -50

    by scholarmage
    on 2022-02-17 14:19
    I explored Satrium's Links of the Anvil, thought it was extremely cool - and then never went back, because it was vast, sprawling, and basically had no meaning to my writing. As Uncontrollable Dwarf said, the key is consistent tagging (I record used tags in my World Notebook, to keep tags identical), categories (they're a crucial organisational tool in my article tree) and by using hub articles that pull tagged content (for example, one of my towns, Ka-Tepi, has a 'Characters of Ka-Tepi' page. The article has the BBcode 'tagged:#KaTepiMerchantNPC|block|Merchants' - it pulls every character tagged KaTepiMerchantNPC and displays them in a list on the page together with their stub extract).   I also think this would suck a fair amount of development resources away from more attainable goals, and be murder on system resources to display on some devices, such as a tablet or low-end PC.

  • +300

    by Bailey_Boiii
    on 2022-02-17 01:22
    This would be pretty helpful ngl

  • +300

    by A Goodhearted Elf
    on 2022-02-17 00:30

  • +200

    by coletw
    on 2022-02-16 21:47

  • +10

    by A Fierce Hobbit
    on 2022-02-16 19:31

  • +20

    by Adcheryl
    on 2022-02-16 17:40

  • +300

    by BARON229
    on 2022-02-15 11:55

  • +300

    by Guentherarer
    on 2022-02-14 09:22

  • +200

    by TannerW
    on 2022-02-13 22:50

  • +300

    by babipoki
    on 2022-02-13 21:57

  • +200

    by Tijmuhn
    on 2022-02-13 09:46

  • +300

    by TobiasofPi
    on 2022-02-13 03:28

  • +300

    by ArcticEagle
    on 2022-02-13 01:25

  • +300

    by Linnitry
    on 2022-02-12 09:49
    Yes please, anything that helps organisation is so vastly valuable

  • +20

    by AuraGuard
    on 2022-02-12 02:57

  • +300

    by kaiohon
    on 2022-02-12 00:20

  • +50

    by Exarx
    on 2022-02-11 06:34

  • +300

    by aithanir
    on 2022-02-11 02:15

  • -300

    by A Uncontrollable Dwarf
    on 2022-02-10 21:39
    Having seen already Satrium's Links of the Anvil, I can tell you that these diagrams look really amazing but do nothing in terms of making it clearer what is connected to what. You just see a lot of nodes in a fancy 3d environment. If you want to organize your world  
  • Use tags correctly
  • Use categories correctly
  • Make sure of Wiki-like hub articles.

  • +100

    by Careen Ligh
    on 2022-02-10 16:57

  • +100

    by Uruschk
    on 2022-02-10 14:06

  • +100

    by NovaTerra
    on 2022-02-10 13:52

  • +10

    by Satrium
    on 2022-02-10 13:49
    This is the exact reason why I created an external tool to visualize article connections. It's highly customizable, but I admit it needs some improvements. Feel free to reach out to me on the discord server with any ideas and feedback.   https://linksoftheanvil.satrium.dev/

  • +300

    by LadySerin
    on 2022-02-10 12:38

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