I am making notes and within these topics listing quite a few characteristics of that topic, all of which are notes. As a result, in graph view, my topics have a lot of notes coming off them (which is ideal). New topics link to the same characteristics (sometimes), which allows me to determined shared characteristics between topics. However, it is quite manual looking through the nodes to see the characteristics which are shared between the most/least topics.
I am interested in the characteristics with the most and least connections to topics, as these are either highly generalisable and highly specific, respectively.
Proposed solution
It would be great to add a filter based on how many connections a note has, for example, only show notes with 1 connection or only show notes with >5 connections, etc.
The current orphan filter in Obsidian, which hides nodes with no connections, could be extended to significantly enhance the app’s functionality.
I heavily rely on AI to create vault outlines, instructing it to generate a generous amount of links in the notes. This approach is useful because notes with multiple incoming links automatically become the most important topics for me to focus on.
However, this process inherently generates a large amount of ‘noise’ - articles with only one note linking to them. In the graph view, these single-connection clusters are so dense that they obscure the connections I’m truly interested in: notes with more than one connection. When the AI mentions a topic more than once, it signals that this topic has earned my attention.
By allowing users to filter nodes based on any number of connections, we can hide the least meaningful but most numerous nodes (both orphans and single-connection notes). This would prevent them from obscuring the far more interesting nodes - those referenced by two or more other notes.