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Literature Canvas Workflow
Default output
Maps/literature.canvas
Purpose
Provide a default Obsidian literature graph that:
- keeps
Sources/Papers/as the canonical paper-note surface, - keeps
Knowledge/as the canonical synthesis surface, - visualizes paper-to-paper and paper-to-knowledge relationships,
- stays lightweight enough to refresh after each major Zotero ingestion.
Default behavior
- Use paper-note frontmatter and wikilinks as the primary graph source.
- Use
Sources/Papers/*.mdand relevantKnowledge/*.mdas file nodes. - Create
.canvasby default for literature ingestion and review workflows. - Treat Mermaid or markdown graph notes as optional legacy companions, not the default graph artifact.
- Prefer argument-map structure with
paper,claim,method, andgapnodes over raw all-to-all paper linking. - Thin edges aggressively; keep only the main reasoning chain and a small number of explicit semantic paper-to-paper relations.
- Hide or down-rank side branches when they clutter the display graph.
Refresh triggers
Refresh the literature canvas when:
- new Zotero-sourced paper notes are added,
- paper notes gain new
linked_knowledgeedges or meaningful wikilinks, - knowledge synthesis notes are updated after a literature pass,
- a batch Zotero review or note-ingestion pass finishes,
- a full-collection normalization pass changes many paper-note relationships.
Recommended command
python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/obsidian-literature-workflow/scripts/build_literature_canvas.py" --cwd "$PWD"
Display rule
- If a second lightweight showcase graph is useful, maintain
Maps/literature-main.canvasas a filtered presentation copy rather than bloating the default working canvas.