Daily note shows as an orphan in filtered graph view even though it has links

[obsidiessed]

Things I have tried

I have searched the help forum but can’t find any similar report.

What I’m trying to do

New user to Obsidian. I am using daily notes to create a journal of ideas for each day. I create links from each daily note to new .md files. In the global graph view I can see the edges to each daily note, but when I filter to the folder that contains just my daily notes, some of the daily notes show up as orphans (i.e. no edges to other nodes), even though I have created new .md files for them (these will show up on global view). I am filtering the graph using the following:

path:“Notes/200 Daily notes” (i.e. the directory (Notes) and name of folder ‘(200 Daily notes’ that contains all my daily notes)

filter with Ophans turned on. If I turn off the Orphans, I can’t even see my daily notes as nodes.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? In the screen shot below, there are 3 daily notes that have no edges connected to them even though these will show up in the global unfiltered view.

[GLight]

I think you may provide the content of the problematic note, as well as where are these notes located, so that people can help figure out what’s going wrong.

[obsidiessed]

Thanks GLight. Here is an example of the content for the 20210405-2150 daily note:

Location/path of all daily notes: Notes/200 Daily notes
Daily note file name: 20210405-2150
Exact text, I.e. content of the 20210405-2150 daily note in .md format:

Screen shot of global graph view showing connection between daily note and its linked file as expected:

Screen shot of ”filtered view by path” showing that the daily note is an “orphan” when it really isn’t:

[WhiteNoise]

is Biophysical and Optical.. stored in Notes/200 Daily?
If not, why do you expect to see it since you are filtering it out?

It’s an orphan in the context of the filtered search

[GLight]

If you want to keep the [[Bio…logy]] node in the graph, you may modify the filter by adding a condition like:

file:("Biophysical and Optical Basis for Morphology")

Otherwise, as mentioned by @WhiteNoise, with a filter like:

path:"Notes/200 Daily notes" 

the notes which are not located within “Notes/200 Daily notes” are excluded.

[obsidiessed]

OK. Thanks to @GLight and @WhiteNoise. I now realize that if my Daily notes are in a different folder from my other notes, then the graph-view won’t show those links. This now makes sense to me. The edges I was able to see in the graph-view were to nodes that had not yet been activated as independent .md files. As soon as I activated those nodes as new .md files outside of my Daily notes folder, those links disappeared too since they were not in the same folder as the Daily notes. I basically organize all my .md files in either a generic “Notes” folder or a “Daily notes” folder.

At the risk of furthering this thread, I guess I should explain that what I was looking for was a method to show my daily notes on the graph-view in such as way that I could easily spot which ones were truly global “orphans”. My use case is the following:

I was hoping to use Daily notes as a means a quickly first getting ideas into digital format, without having them looking pretty or having well thought out links. Then at a later stage I would come back to my Daily’s and refine them with links, etc. But I wanted to be able to easily filter out which Daily’s were true unlinked orphans so that I could go back and work on those. I was hoping that the graph-view would allow me to find those quickly. I hope I’ve been able to explain my proposed workflow. Now I just got to figure out if there is functionality within Obsidian to allow me to do that.

[GLight]

Use the search panel.

you can have a try of the following search condition to see if it gives you what you want.
I did not have a throughly test, so there is no guarantee of anything.

Anyway, have some tests and have fun!

path:000Journal -/\[\[/