Isn't it fun to play round with ideas when we're not responsible for implementing them?
I don't want to lose rich text editing for the sake of showing connections. I want both; I'm greedy that way. So I'd like my connections in a separate pane. Maybe the 'child items' and 'parent items' views could evolve into a more complete 'connections' view?
There are so many ways in UR to connect and associate items. Parent/child on the tree; value of specific attributes; shared user-defined keywords; text links. How to make it possible to get an overview of all of these, without having a list half a mile long? And all on an obstinately two-dimensional screen?