Vines, links and relations
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Two kinds of connection between notes, drawn differently on purpose.
- A link I wrote (a note name in double square brackets) is a solid vine with leaves. A solid line means I connected the ideas.
- An automatic relation is a dotted runner. Two notes are “related by wording” only if they share a topic, share at least 3 meaningful words, and each has 25 or more words.
The rule is strict because wording can’t tell meanings apart. Before it, a song lyric and a server note were “related” because both said “system”.
Vines grow rather than run: each bows and wanders with leaves and a tendril, random but the same on every visit. On the Garden page they pass behind cards, so they never cross text.
If two notes keep getting related wrongly, not_related: in either one keeps them apart. Relations by meaning, judged by AI, are on the list. See Dungeon’s Known Limits.
Part of The Digital Garden.