Obsidian graph view
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Pros
- it is a whole other feeling when you can get an image of a topic (or your entire vault) by looking at the graph, versus being lost at the local view of jumping from one file to the next or navigating a big wall of text.
- For me, it's a mix of two things. One is it's just kinda fun. I like playing with the colors and seeing where interests or lines of thinking converge. Second is sometimes I'm creating a note and adding lots of links where I'd like to lea...
- It is useful to find notes faster, better than searching by folders
- I can just open the graph and take a look at the different notes and tags that i made linking up with each other, that I had no idea were related and finding out new connections between distinct topics.
- it looks neat
Cons
- if only it came with a context-menu on right-click. like "add tag". I often filter by tags and then see (colored by tags) that connected notes are not properly tagged. Would be great to just right click the node "add tag" and be done.... :/
- If we could save those filters it would be nice. I've done some complicated ones once, and it started to. Get meaningful. But it only remembers last filter.
- I've been frustrated with the Obsidian graph view for a while. It's beautiful but basically read-only. You can't edit nodes, can't create new ones, can't actually think inside it.
Sentiment
9 positive (75%) · 0 mixed (0%) · 3 negative (25%)
Trust + time weighted score: +41% · raw score 50%
What redditors said (10 of 12)
it is a whole other feeling when you can get an image of a topic (or your entire vault) by looking at the graph, versus being lost at the local view of jumping from one file to the next or navigating a big wall of text.
if only it came with a context-menu on right-click. like "add tag". I often filter by tags and then see (colored by tags) that connected notes are not properly tagged. Would be great to just right click the node "add tag" and be done.... :/
If we could save those filters it would be nice. I've done some complicated ones once, and it started to. Get meaningful. But it only remembers last filter.
I've been frustrated with the Obsidian graph view for a while. It's beautiful but basically read-only. You can't edit nodes, can't create new ones, can't actually think inside it.
For me, it's a mix of two things. One is it's just kinda fun. I like playing with the colors and seeing where interests or lines of thinking converge. Second is sometimes I'm creating a note and adding lots of links where I'd like to learn more, but I'm not always putting anything in those links. Graph view shows me where I have clusters of empty notes, and usually gives me a good jumping off point into a related topic.
It is useful to find notes faster, better than searching by folders
I can just open the graph and take a look at the different notes and tags that i made linking up with each other, that I had no idea were related and finding out new connections between distinct topics.
it looks neat
Graph is the reason I like obsidian most.
The graph is insanely useful and represents what makes Obsidian's approach the GOAT. ... The graph is the perfect example of this. ... It's beautiful. It gets out of my way and lets me skip the procrastinating parts of note taking (organization) and use it for actually getting things done.
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