The Problem of Too Large Links
The adjective "big" is hard to convey.
An edge of an undirected graph is a set of two elements at a vertex, but the Scrapbox linker extends this to an arbitrary number of elements
Q: Isn't this a directed graph?
With naive hypertext, the link is an edge of a directed graph, so the order of the two elements makes sense.
A wiki-style system that automatically creates backlinks would make this an undirected graph.
Scrapbox can also distinguish "link/sublink", but here we have an undirected graph with the target relationship as the relationship to which the navigation is connected.
With Scrapbox, furthermore, "the link is not necessarily to an existing vertex."
Include non-existent vertices in the vertex set
Plus, the two-hop link is effectively a "link to a set of pages."
When this set is too large, there is little benefit to humans from displaying all of it.
The reason automatic linking doesn't work is because a way to make it work hasn't been created yet.
The mistake of "trying to link all pages where a particular keyword appears."
That's like search results.
Easily becomes a "too-big-to-fail" link.
The same problem occurs with automatic keyword extraction.
On the other hand, the "links are made by humans" policy that Scrapbox has adopted hasn't solved the problem either.
I've manually added too many "KJ method" links because I thought it was important, and now it's clearly too big.
If you keep thinking about a particular subject, the links on that subject will grow too large, and the effectiveness of Scrapbox will be compromised.
In order to achieve a preferred state, we must know what kind of state is preferred
At any rate, links that are too large are not good.
How many Scrapboxes or more are rated "..."?
Statistics on the size of each user's links.
You can pour an entire book into the current Scrapbox, but even if you do that, you won't be happy with the current Scrapbox.
Because links are scarce?
Should we automatically generate links?
Keyword extraction and automatic linking
→ Tragedy!
The unexplored name list is also in a bad state due to the "supercreator" tag on all the supercreators.
The link with the most people in it is not very informative.
Even the "links are made by humans" policy that Scrapbox has adopted hasn't solved the problem.
I've added too many "KJ method" links because I thought it was important to do it manually, and now it's clearly too big.
If you keep thinking about a particular subject, the links on that subject will grow too large, and the effectiveness of Scrapbox will be compromised.
A problem that inevitably arises as the number of pages increases
Sometimes you don't think a link is too big at first, but as more pages are added, it becomes too big [yosider.icon].
The KJ Method."
https://gyazo.com/748c9ee5c30ba52363f02cde6bc296ce
I want to do something about it.
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