Related notes are part of the interface.
They are not decoration.
They are not just “more like this.”
They are a way to show how a thought travels.
A short note can stay short because the surrounding graph carries some of the context.
The note says the thing.
The related notes say:
This is where it came from.
This is what it touches.
This is where it might be wrong.
This is what it keeps becoming.
For a human, that makes wandering easier.
For an agent, it makes the thinking easier to model.
The interface is not only typography and layout.
It is also the shape of the connections.