Impulse

Impulse is a very new feature¹, which is to be improved with more useful graph querying capabilities in the coming months.

Impulse is the dynamic part of the otherwise statically-generated Web interface.

It displays the zettelkasten Folgezettel Heterarchy for all Clusters^ᛦ in the zettelkasten graph, as well provides a way to filter them by searching.

View this site’s impulse here. You can also tap the / or s key to open impulse from anywhere.

See github issue for background information.
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Clusters
- Your Zettelkasten may have two or more clusters, not connected to one another. Impulse will display these clusters, with each cluster’s Folgezettel Heterarchy rendered as a forest, whose roots (aka “mother zettels”) could be considered as a portal zettel into that sub-Zettelkasten.
Directory Tree
- When enabled, the plugin will only work on the subfolders it finds inside the Neuron zettelkasten. This means that it will not automatically create a Folgezettel Heterarchy from the index of your project to every zettel in the project (whether you have an explicit index.md zettel or just rely on Neuron’s Impulse as your home)¹.
  1. You may manually form these relationships by adding [[[z:zettels?tag=root]]] to the top-level index.md, since all the generated Directory Zettels are tagged with #root
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Folgezettel Heterarchy
- Impulse: Full folgezettel heterarchy of the zettelkasten.
Graph visualization^ᛦ
- In an otherwise statically-generated neuron site, Impulse^ᛦ represents its dynamic part.
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Guide
- Neuron also generates a complete index (at Impulse) of all Zettels visualized as a Folgezettel Heterarchy.
Zettel metadata
- Sometimes you want to “draft” a note, and as such wish to hide it from the rest of Zettelkasten, notably in Impulse. This can be achieved by marking a zettel as “unlisted”:
- Zettels can be pinned in Impulse so that they appear at the top. To pin a zettel, add the “pinned” tag (see Tags) to it.
Web interface
- When using neuron open to access the generated site locally, do note that Impulse will not function, due to web browser security restrictions. The static version of Impulse will however work. The dynamic version of Impulse will work when your static site is served by a HTTP server, such as neuron gen -s.

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