Network

The Network is the whole that many NetworkNotes form: every Note and every Link, taken together. You never design it. It is an emergent shape, the accumulated residue of many small linking decisions.

Structure you discover, not decree

Over time, clusters form around the ideas you return to most, bridges appear between fields you didn’t expect to connect, and the structure of your own thinking becomes something you can actually see. A “category” in NetworkNotes is not a folder you created; it is a neighbourhood that emerged.

Reading the shape of a Network

Because a Network is a real structure, you can read its health:

• Hubs: heavily linked Notes reveal your load-bearing ideas. They are where reviewing pays off (see Centrality).
• Orphans: Notes with no Links are unfinished work, an idea still waiting to find its place.
• Connectedness: whether ideas are integrating or just piling up. Watch the average links per Note rather than raw density, which misleads as the Network grows. Network Measures covers why, and a few other measures worth a glance.

You can see all of this directly on a NetworkMap; this very site renders its own, hubs and orphans and all.

Next: the NetworkMap, how to see your Network.