Graph view: how to keep a node highlighted?

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Hello everyone! I am new to Obsidian, and just started moving my notes to this tool.

Looking at the graph view I was wondering if there is any way to keep a specific node (and all the connected ones) highlighted while panning around. I tried clicking and using all the modifiers I could think of (ctrl, alt, super, …) but it always ends up opening the note instead of keeping the node highlighted.

Thanks!

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that’s a great question, as far as I know this isn’t possible, but definitely extremely useful

this is not the same, but you might find it useful

go to your note
open command pallette ctrl/cmd+p
type local graph

this opens a graph with notes connected directly to the one you are in

hope it helps

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Thank you for the suggestion!

The local graph is a very nice feature, but it breaks the flow quite a bit to have to open a different file and then go back to the global graph.

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yeah I get you, I think the functionality that you are requesting is would be a great idea!

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I want to second this.

This feature is the difference between the whole app being useful for what I want to do, or useless (for me).

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Is this the functionality that you are trying to get?

Feature Request Thread. Seems feature already exists?

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It’s indeed not possible at the moment. I’ll move this to #resolved-help for now. Please search in the #feature-requests category before opening a new one

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