Base: Add a Graph View (put graph view in base's view menu)

[lajawi]

I think the best way to go about implementing this would be in the Graph View core plugin, it would follow the same logic like the Maps View for bases, which also is a separate plugin for a specific view (released in the community plugins, but that’s beside the point). Only those who actually have enabled both the Bases and Graph View plugins would see the option of creating a Graph view in a Base.

@DandyLyons

When I create a Graph View in my Base what happens? I think I’d expect the graph to only show node’s that are in the Base’s filter. But then I’d also like to be able to expand from that graph to see links and backlinks from those nodes.

All notes that pass the filters are shown, plus all nodes you specify for links. This would mean that if you were to filter on a folder, but notes in that folder link to notes in a different folder, those would still be displayed if you set the links to be that.

@AdrianoCzelentano

Embeded example

![[note.base#view1#local graph]]
or
![[note.base#view1|local graph]]

Embedding it in a note would be as easy as ![[file.base#Graph]] (or if it’s the default view of a base it would be ![[file.base]] like usual), and doing it in a code block would work as any other view too:

```base
views:
  - type: graph
    name: "Graph"
```

@G_ben

• group-by not easy to include, it might define the force between 2 nodes? or maybe just creates some artificial clustering between nodes even if they are not linked.

Taking inspiration from another feature request, groupBy could be easily done by either some kind of background “puddle”…

Graph View - Show Folders like Puddles of Water

[Graph Ideas 2] I use tags and directories as two layers of organization. Therefore I’d wish a visualisation of the directories could be added to the graph. I think it would also be easier to sense certain connections more intuitively. Show Folders - Puddles of Water This approach is to visualize all notes with their tags in their directories, which are represented as “colored puddles of water”. This is intended to create an additional force in the visualization of the graph, which tries to m…

… or making the notes attract or repel each other depending on the group they are part of (in the below post the example of folders and sub-folders was used, imagine it were simple groups):

Create a graph based on the folder structure

I found this thread because I was looking for a way to bunch together/group nodes in the graph by their proximity in the folder hierarchy. Notes that only share the same root folder would push each other further away, whilst those in the same sub-sub-sub-folder would pull together. With these two rules it should already cause the grouping to happen quite naturally, and if they were sliders in the already existing graph, one can tweak them to their liking (even disabling them fully).

Idea: Links based on properties/formulas

To make even more use of graph views, the idea of customising what it is that defines the connection came to me too. Similar to what @adrian17050 suggested:

@adrian17050

Say I have a bunch of notes with up, down, prev, and next properties. For this view, I only want to show the relationships between up/down notes, not prev/next or links in the body of the note, so I include only those properties as columns in the graph view. Alternatively, if I want only the links across bodies of notes and not the properties, I’d use file.links as a column and no other property.

Using slashes to denote nesting

Just like in nested tags (#topic/subtopic) or file paths (Folder/Sub-Folder/File.md), the / (slash) could be interpreted as a new layer, making it easy to make a graph view based on folder structure:

Create a graph based on the folder structure

Hi there, I’ve been trying out Obsidian for the past week, and I’d like to suggest the idea of a toggle-able view between the already existing Graph View and a Folder Graph View. To show a simple example, here’s a second brain folder I started this week viewed through Gource, which shows git commits through an animation. This view shows each folder as a line, and shows the files located in that folder as a dot: [image]

Idea: Controlling force strengths through properties/formulas

I made a base for myself that shows related notes, even if they don’t directly link to one another. I use a value to determine whether it is related enough to be shown in the base, and it’s used for sorting too.

This is a simple number, and it would be cool if such a calculated number can be used to set the attraction forces for each node with the node it is attached to. This is a loose idea, but one that would make the distances between nodes in the graph view informative too.