Customization of Attachment and Tag Appearance in Graph View

[omarkmu]

Use case or problem

The graph view can display attachments and tags, but we don’t have much control over how they appear. This includes both colors and text; attachment filenames can overcrowd the graph view when enabled, as this post points out:

Questions concerning attachments in graph view

Hello, the following issues that I will list, I have searched for a solution on this Help category of the forum, but I could not find anything even close to it, so here it is: is there a way to change the colour of the nodes for attachments? Like if an attachment is in a group (path), and its node is red, can i change the attachments’ node colour to red too? Is there any way to change the colour of the nodes for attachments? I tried making a group for the path location that the attachments a…

My main use case would be hiding the file path for attachments. I have a bibliography note that only links to attachments, so it would be nice to be able to see the filename without the path or extension. Customizing colors based on file path, name, or extension would also be nice.

Proposed solution

This could be a set of options for attachments and tags such as “show file path”, “show extension”, and “show hashtag” for tags. For tag/attachment colors, it could behave similarly to the existing groups.

Related feature requests

Attachment colors were mentioned here:

Graph view groups for attachment nodes

Use case or problem In the graph view a user can assign groups with various filters to their .md files. The use case for this is to organize with colors. Here I have colored all the files with .md extensions red. [image] I would like to use this same method to color attachment nodes. This is a vault involving a project with various references in the form of .png or .jpg files, as well as working files like .psd (photoshop) and .kra (krita). I would like to apply these search filters to th…

I considered this request distinct because my focus is attachment filenames. It may make sense to merge this request into that one, though.

Additionally, this request:

Use H1 or YAML property "title" instead of or in addition to filename as display name

I’m interested in a setting that would use a note’s H1 or front-matter title instead of or in addition to the filename as the display name everywhere: links, backlinks, graph view, search, etc. How would this be useful: For users who use IDs as filenames or who generally want more concise filenames Use illegal filename characters and emojis in note titles More readable graph, search, backlinks, etc. Other assumptions/thoughts/questions: Is this global or feature-specific? By feature-specif…

This request is concerned with regular notes rather than attachments or tags, but it’s also focused on allowing customization of how text appears in graph view.