MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Relationships

Summary

Relationships between notes can be made explicit using cardinality.
This improves navigation, analysis, and contextual understanding.

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MentisCell – Notes Best Practices: Relationships

Content

• Use cardinal representation for relationships:
  • parents (North)
  • children (South)
  • similars (West)
  • opposes (East)
• “Previous” and “Next” can be derived from links and backlinks.
• Represent relationships visually with plugins like Excalibrain.
• Richer relationships = deeper insights.

Essence

• Relationships = semantic clarity.
• Cardinality improves structure.
• Visualization enhances comprehension.

Interconnections

• Hub – Notes Best Practices
• Semantic linking
• Linking process
• Ideas Compass

Tags

#relationships #cardinality #bestpractices #mentiscraft

Contributors

Created with the support of Microsoft Copilot on 2025-10-04.
Validated and edited by Jorge Godoy.

Source or Origin of Information

• Original - Notes Best Practices