I'm exactly in the same boat as you regarding both the mentality and approach.
Just a curious question about the index notes: don't you feel they're cluttering up the graph and result in superficial relationships between the notes?
In my personal case: I used to create index notes to make navigation easier, but then I've found myself wondering "where should this note be indexed?" and also not getting much value out of the relationship graph.
Once I've discarded the index notes, the relationships became much more organic and authentic. Surprisingly, finding notes hasn't become more difficult after eliminating the index notes -- queries and lists are a beautiful thing.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you encounter any challenges with indexing?
This depends on which tool you're using. I use Obsidian, which has options for creating indexes without polluting the graph view. My indexes are produced from queries which don't create actual links which are picked up by the graph.
Just a curious question about the index notes: don't you feel they're cluttering up the graph and result in superficial relationships between the notes?
In my personal case: I used to create index notes to make navigation easier, but then I've found myself wondering "where should this note be indexed?" and also not getting much value out of the relationship graph.
Once I've discarded the index notes, the relationships became much more organic and authentic. Surprisingly, finding notes hasn't become more difficult after eliminating the index notes -- queries and lists are a beautiful thing.
What are your thoughts on this? Do you encounter any challenges with indexing?