This repository contains a research prototype of Latticework, implemented as an Obsidian plugin. Latticework is a system designed to unify annotation with freeform text editing in the context of personal knowledge management tools.
You can read more about its goals and design in the research report: https://www.matthewsiu.com/Latticework
This prototype is an experimental implementation that doesn't fully realize all the features described in our research report. We're sharing it primarily as a reference implementation that provided us insights during the research process.
We recommend against building directly upon this codebase. Instead, we encourage using this prototype as inspiration for future implementations of these ideas.
CMD + Shift + H - Creates a highlight + adds a text reference to adjacent document (if it exists, otherwise to the bottom of current document)
CMD + Shift + C - Copy command that copies a text reference
Shift + Click - Collapse or expand a text reference
CMD + Shift + S - Collapse or expand all
When hovering a text reference or backlink, hold CMD to peek it's destination document and location in an adjacent panel. While holding CMD, you can click to keep that panel open.
While hovering a backlink, click to add/edit a marginalia note alongside
Before trying this prototype, it is best to install this plugin in a fresh obsidian instance as it is may have some conflicts with other plugins.
In Obsidian's community plugins menu option, browse and install a the BRAT plugin. We'll use this to install Latticework from this github repo.
Once installed, activate the plugin, go to the setting for BRAT and click the add beta plugin button. We'll then paste the link to this repository https://github.com/Siunami/Latticework/
Lastly, confirm that the Latticework (Prototype) plugin version 0.1.8 is installed and active in the community plugins menu option.