Comparing org-roam to hyperbole

[Aldric Giacomoni]

Hi folks,

org-roam ( https://www.orgroam.com/ and https://www.orgroam.com/manual/ ) is a personal knowledge management system built on top of org-mode. It's based on the idea that units of knowledge are nodes in an undirected graph, and they can be linked with each other to create, well, a graph of knowledge. This means it's easy enough to find sibling nodes (nodes connected to the node currently open).

I just saw a demo of hyperbole at the Emacs NYC meetup and it seems like it has the same basis: buffers/files are nodes, and they are connected -- which, to be fair, is the idea behind the internet, so it's not ground-breaking.

Anyway -- I became aware of org-roam a while back and so far I really like using it to organize my knowledge, but after seeing hyperbole in action, which has also been in development 30 years, I wonder ... Can hyperbole do this? 

If I understand correctly, it can do the basics: create buttons that point to other files, and I think with Hyrolo we can search through a bunch of files/file headers. I don't know if hyperbole would be a good candidate for an implementation of the zettelkasten ( https://www.orgroam.com/manual/A-Brief-Introduction-to-the-Zettelkasten-Method.html#A-Brief-Introduction-to-the-Zettelkasten-Method ) method, though.

What do you think?

--Aldric