(Feature request) Auto-visualizing notes returned by a search query

[agentydragon]

Describe feature

Allow user write a search query and have its search result automatically visualized - only the returned notes, not also their children.

That is the thing I'm trying to do and having problems doing with Trilium right now. Below I describe why I want this, and some ways I propose this could be implemented.

My problem

I would like to have a visualization of all my issues and issue hotlists (i.e., #issue OR #hotlist search query results).

some of my issues contain notes that are not themselves issues. If issue "call John" contains "John" as a subpage, I don't want John included in the visualization.

I ideally do not want to have to manually add all of those nodes. I want the visualization to auto-update as I create new issues, etc.

I just tried using a note map for this (https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Note-map).

• good: it does show the relationship I want.
• bad: I had to manually run a search query and branch all the notes it returned into the note map.
• bad: if I add issue "call John" into the note map, it also adds "John" into the map, and that makes the visualization show lots of noise I don't care about for this purpose. I tried pointing #mapRootNoteId into a search note, thinking maybe that way it'd load nodes from the search. but that didn't help - it only shows the search note, not the search results.

I also tried a relation map.

• good: it does display the relations correctly.
• good: it does automatically include child notes like a note map does, so I can have "call John" in there without "John".
• bad: I have several hundred pages I want to visualize. it looks like the official way to add notes to a relation map is by drag-and-dropping. the drag-and-drop target only accepts 1 note at a time - I can't select all ~200 pages under a search note and drop them onto the relation map, because it doesn't accept dropping in >1 note. see https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3267
• bad: relation map is manually laid out, I don't think it would automatically nicely cluster my ~200 pages for me. see https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3266

some ideas for options that would help me here:

• somehow make the note map not follow child notes, plus option to limit the relations that are shown on a note map
  • or make it possible to add things into the note map by a relation - like “myIssue: ~isOnNoteMap=@the note map” https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki/Relation-map - relation map had displayRelations and hideRelations, but I don't know if those also work on note maps
  • then what I'd do would be copy-paste all the notes I wanna visualize into the note map, turn off following children, and turn on only relations I wanna see
• an option to bulk-add into a relation map, plus an option to auto-relayout it
  • relation map does allow fine-grained control over which notes are inside it, but having to drag-and-drop into it to add stuff doesn't work for me in its current state. see https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3267
  • if I could drag-drop all ~200 notes into it, and tell it “okay now relayout them for me”, this would work well for me - https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3266

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[agentydragon]

I think the root of my problem with note map for this purpose would be best addressed by https://github.com/zadam/trilium/issues/3263 - the Trilium having one privileged tree structure.

[agentydragon]

It also looks like the relation map has a relation to nodes included on it, but I could only see the relation when trying to delete a node on the map - I didn't see that relation either on the relation map's owned attributes, or the displayed note's owned attributes. So I suspect it might work like the "internalLink" relation and be just automatically generated from the content of the map note's markup.

[agentydragon]

looks like the relation map is JSON. I could write a piece of Trilium JS to run a search query and generate this JSON from the results.

so if I generated the JSON and then could click a "relayout" button to lay the graph out reasonably, that would help. it would be nice if there were such a button in relation map view, but worst-case I could just lay the graph out myself.

[zadam]

I added some improvements to the note map implementation to work on search notes - it's available through ribbon tab or created as a "note map" note with #mapRootNoteId pointing to the search note: