Contextualise is an effective tool particularly suited for organising information-heavy projects and activities consisting of unstructured and widely diverse data and information resources
An association is also a topic. Nonetheless, an association is also more than a topic. From a technical point-of-view, an association has a more complex data structure and although you could delete an association just like you do a topic, in doing so, remnants of the (more complex) association data structure would be left dangling. Logic has to be added in both the backend (TopicDB) and the frontend (Contextualise) to handle this edge-case.
An association is also a topic. Nonetheless, an association is also more than a topic. From a technical point-of-view, an association has a more complex data structure and although you could delete an association just like you do a topic, in doing so, remnants of the (more complex) association data structure would be left dangling. Logic has to be added in both the backend (TopicDB) and the frontend (Contextualise) to handle this edge-case.