Question
What does it mean that clusters in your graph reveal your domains?
Quick Answer
Natural groupings in your knowledge graph show you what you know most about.
Natural groupings in your knowledge graph show you what you know most about.
Example: You've been building a knowledge graph for two years. You never created a category called 'decision-making under uncertainty.' But when you look at your graph's structure, thirty-seven notes about cognitive biases, probabilistic reasoning, pre-mortems, and Bayesian updating form a tight cluster with dense internal links. The graph is telling you something your filing system never did: this is a domain you've been building expertise in, whether you planned to or not.
Try this: Open your note system's graph view (or export your links and sketch them). Identify the three densest clusters — groups of notes that link heavily to each other but less to the rest of the graph. For each cluster, write a one-sentence label describing what that cluster is about. Now compare those labels to whatever categories, folders, or tags you originally created. Where do they match? Where do the clusters reveal a domain you never formally named?
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