Graph view automatically adds meta data from notes

[bast]

Hi,

I am still very new to Obsidian and I tried to see if this question was already answered but I could not find anything.

I followed this guide (Zotero -> zotfile -> mdnotes -> obsidian -> dataview Workflow) on a zotero to obsidian pipeline (which worked wonderfully) but when I look at the graph it automatically adds nodes to each paper note with item type, authors, and the date, which I do not need in the graph but I also did not find a way to turn it off.

I tried the filtering option “Existing files only” which comes close to resolving it but I have my notes categorized in subfolders which then also disappear.

So my question is how to prevent Obsidian from including meta data in the notes in the graph.

Thank you!

[scholarInTraining]

Quick thought: If they are showing up in the graph, they are presumably [[internalLinks]]. Do you need them to be links, or could you change that in whatever template you are using?

[bast]

Hi,
This does sound likely. At least the format in the exported markdown looks like this.

The mdnotes template that I use to export the annotations from zotero looks like this,

---

aliases: [“{{yamltitle}}”]
Title: “{{yamltitle}}”
{{yamlbooktitle}}

{{yamltitle}}

{{abstractNote}}

Metadata

#zotero #literature-notes #reference

{{itemType}}
{{bookTitle}}
{{author}}
{{date}}
{{DOI}}
{{collections}}, {{tags}}
{{book}}
{{editor}}

Links

{{pdfAttachments}}

Zotero links

{{localLibrary}}
{{cloudLibrary}}

–

I do not need them to be links but I also do not know how to adjust the template to remove the links.
Thank you very much for your suggestion!

[scholarInTraining]

Hi bast,
Reading through the forum post you linked in your initial thread, I think looking for places where “link_style”: “wiki” is applied in the mdnotes configuration might be useful. Is "link_style": "wiki" true for any of the fields you have showing up in your graph? Perhaps you can replace with "link_style": "no-links"? I have not used mdnotes myself so I unfortunately do not have more specific advice, but hopefully this gives you a direction to experiment with!

[bast]

That resolved it perfectly! Thank you very much!