Use case or problem
Essentially I want to navigate my backlinks/outgoing links as if there where folders (tree structure)
I want to be able to view my backlinks and outgoing links as a tee structure whereby the directories of the back linked notes, form the tree.
This would allow another layer of discoverability. Since you can now navigate your backlinks as if you were navigating your vaults directory.
Here is an example taken from the plugins:
This is normal backlinks:
This is the tree structure for the back links:
Proposed solution
Implement an option to view backlinks/outgoing links as a tree.
Perhaps there can be an option to switch between the list view we have now and a hierarchy view?
Related feature requests
this is a plugin that does what I’m asking for backlinks
this is a plugin that does what I’m asking for outgoing links
These two plugins do exactly as I am asking for, but they don’t include the obsidian native features like search etc
Obsidian team, if you see this,
It would be really cool if there was a toggle between how the back links is currently done (though you guys should show full path on it) and the tree view.


