Meos Constellation — a solo bit on a new Meos view where your notes cluster themselves, instead of you maintaining tags and folder trees like Obsidian. Aqeel on why that felt wrong, and why the map should move when you do. The Aqeel Akber Extra Extra Extravaganza, made by Aqeel in Canberra.

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In this episode

The facts

  • A solo bit on Meos Constellation: a new view where notes cluster without manual tags or folders.
  • Aqeel contrasts it with Obsidian-style graphs that depend on you maintaining tags and hierarchy yourself.
  • The view scales Meos cluster semantics across your whole databox, with labels that can shift as you add notes.
  • Clustering uses mathematics borrowed from astrophysics and cosmology; you explore the map in three dimensions.
  • Shipping soon on Meos desktop for Plus and Ultra users.

Between the facts

The conversation turns from a familiar note-taking gripe into a wider question about lenses: why fix your thinking to topics and subjects when every label narrows what you can see? Constellation is pitched as the macroscopic counterpart to cluster view — pretty, but meant to stay useful as the pile grows.

Beyond the facts

Underneath the product walkthrough sits a stubborn idea about personhood: you are not one static filing system, and a map that freezes you into topics only reinforces an old version. The aim is heuristic computing that widens judgment rather than outsourcing it — a way to glimpse what your thousands of notes already know that you have forgotten.

Why you should listen

The full arc carries both the rant and the reveal: why manual knowledge graphs felt wrong for Meos, how constellation actually behaves on real notes, and why the map has to move when you do. Stay for the philosophy and the live demo together — neither half tells the whole story on its own.

Transcript

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Look great thank you thank you so much and you know what else looks really good something like This so uh given that we are in the note-taking space and you've probably seen all of those Obsidian sort of things making those graphs and all that sort of stuff but you have to maintain Those tags and everything yourselves and then people tend to use llms to do this to be able To make these tags now i am going to have to write a full blog post about my

Rant on this on why we haven't made a knowledge graph because let's say you've decided to tag And connect together everything by let's say topic or subject how is that the right lens to look At something Every time that you are going to then put a label upon something there is a certain way Which you're looking at it and i wanted to make sure for meos that we have something that Is more pan-dimensional more general and then within that you should still be able to find patterns and

Importantly why would we restrict the traversal of artificial intelligence or your way own way your own brain Works based on something as basic as are they a boy or a girl you know and that 's why um this research project that we've got and we'll be shipping pretty soon we call me Os constellation and not only is it pretty it's actually good and useful the useful part here is Suppose you have made a wiki or a hierarchy of stuff as soon as you add more information

And notes and things like that then where do you come from like i've at least found you Try and make a file structure and you always add new information it's like it doesn't quite fit In you have to redo everything so this is entirely dynamic it is built upon the exact same Thing that builds meos cluster so on the cluster view you see that same sort of thing that Semantic sort of stuff goes on there this is the macroscopic view of everything that you may have

In your data box as well as then being able to see the trends upon those uh we 've then applied algorithms that and algorithms and mathematics that are inspired by some ideas that i got From my astrophysics and cosmology classes back in the day long time ago and it turned out to Work really well in this information space to be able to understand things hence why calling it constellation So over here we have an example set of notes that we have turned into a constellation so

Over here all of the clusters are connected together you can see they've all got a title once We have worked out a clustering then we can give it a label if you add a new Information that label and hierarchy will highly likely change and that's just like us when you learn something New you change you shouldn't necessarily separate ideas from each other not if you want to stay relevant In this world you know

I'm gonna say that yep keep that in so we can take it take a look here and Like three dimensions i believe works really well to be able to explore this rather than two dimensions Um it in fact actually works well with the algorithm as well so for example um all concepts Here and then the next level technological process process and then inside that scientific advancement inside that economic And tech these positionings are roughly correlated to their likeliness with each other as well in some places

You can sometimes it comes up where you see that they overlap so you would expect eventually them To overlap but there are none in this case it is strictly hierarchical so let's give an example Over here i'm going to go into cultural achievements let's say cultural achievements over the right it says There egypt pyramids invention of printing press uh hemingway shakespeare that sounds like cultural achievements so that's pretty Good that's pretty good there i guess by the nature of this being semantic and heuristic you will

Potentially find errors and this is something that i believe is okay when we have it being more Representative a big philosophy of mios is to help the everyday person move into this era of he Uristic computing and this like i like to call it the knowledge era and that allows we're trying To give them safe passage through that in a way that is familiar allow your own judgment and We never infantilize we don't want to let people's brains fall out just because we have ai and

There this is a ai product or whatever this and that it's actually designed to strengthen your own Mind's intelligence in every single way so this is mios constellation i am really excited about this we Are going to ship this pretty soon actually and it will be available on mios desktop to our Plus and ultra users they will be able to explore their information and notes and i'll leave this Here with one thing and that is when you have a lot of information and notes yourself you

Might not know what you don't know or you might not remember what you don't remember in fact You don't that's the whole point this is useful because it allows you to glimpse that and know What's in your thousands of notes i have over 10 000 elements in my data box on m Ios now on my phone which is really phenomenal how quickly you start accruing all of this information The cluster view is great because as soon as you add something it brings up associated things that

Are the same but what if you just living through a different season of life what if you Are now not necessarily remembering that you did something that could be useful for now that's exactly what This view is for and that's exactly why it needs to stay dynamic because if it was just Topics it's only going to reinforce one version of you that is non-dynamic