Clew: A second graph view with real analytics (bridge notes, communities, semantic clusters, stale-topic detection)

Disclaimer

Is this plugin open source? Yes
Is this plugin completely free? Yes
Is this plugin vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No
Community Directory: https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=clew

Hi all,

I built Clew, a Community Plugin that adds a second, purpose-built graph view on top of your vault. The built-in graph shows everything at once with one fixed look. Clew runs actual graph analytics on top and lets you filter/color/size by what it finds.

What it can tell you that the built-in graph can’t:

  • Which notes are bridges between otherwise-separate parts of your vault (betweenness centrality)
  • Which notes are prominent, not just well-linked (PageRank)
  • Communities of linked notes, and which ones have gone stale or are scattered across mismatched folders
  • Notes related by meaning, not links - a local embedding model clusters notes that are about the same thing even with zero links between them
  • Orphaned notes, broken links, and isolated clusters, all in one Diagnostics panel. One click to highlight them on the graph

Everything else you’d expect: named reusable filters, colored groups, four layouts (Force/Hierarchical/Radial/Circular), find-path between two notes, focus mode, a timeline replay of vault growth, saved views.

Nothing here touches your notes. It’s all Clew’s own state.

:open_book: Full docs: https://christian-luger-at.github.io/obsidian-clew/
:electric_plug: Install: Community Plugins → search “Clew”
:bug: Feedback/issues very welcome: https://github.com/christian-luger-at/obsidian-clew/issues

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