#14

+1.

Iā€™ve lately tuned out much of the PKM conversation and even keeping up with newer features being added to Obsidian. Instead, Iā€™ve focused on tending the little garden I have here. ā€œWorkā€ happens all sorts of ways, much of it away from the computer. Iā€™m pleased with the progress Iā€™ve won by keeping it simple.

This thread confirms my method. Keeping Mooreā€™s Law in mind, it was just the other day that I thought, ā€œit might be nice to save graph queries.ā€ And here it is ā€” lots of others have already thought of it.

If that had been given to me from the start, I wouldnā€™t know what to do with it. In fact, most of the features in Obsidian are like this for me. Iā€™m grateful to have the capability, but happy to leave it alone ā€” almost like in a black box ā€” until I see the need for something I canā€™t accomplish with the current tools.

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#15

+1 for this.

Just yesterday when I wanted to close the filters panel I inadvertently clicked restore filters, so I lost all my color groups (as well as the other settings). I wish I could reload a saved preset profile then!

I have a small .md file where I keep a few lines of more or less complex and refined filter options (path, -path, etc.), so I can just copy and paste them as needed. But it would probably be faster and more relevant as loadable presets.

In any case, I find it very useful for color groups, because choosing consistent colors takes time, and being able to save conceptual, thematic or practical palettes would be great.

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#16

As a workaroundā€¦

In terms of the queries we can save them in the starred section by copy-pasting the query into the global search box. Then we can search for the query by clicking on the star option to load it in the search tab, then copy-paste it back to the graph filter.

Although to leverage star tabs more (if the devs decide to go in that direction), I propose to add a drop-down option from a saved query that would send it to the graph filter.

Being able to load custom view including the colour groups is ideal though!

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#17

Files relate to each other in many different ways, and having only one Graph view causes a tangled web that is more confusing each time you create more and more nodes.

So I think its necessary, just like Juggl does, to have a save button and that way being able to open different configurations of graph view, each one with different colors, filtered tags and sizes

PS: yes, Juggl does it, but its system is not as fluid as the core Graph view.

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#18

I donā€™t know how long the ā€œworkspacesā€ core plugin has been around, but I just found it today. In short, it lets you save different pane layouts and sidebar states.

I think it would make a lot of sense to implement this request into the workspaces plugin. If the layout of different panes can be saved, then surely it would be very useful to also save the state of the graph.

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#19

This is exactly what I was coming to ask for, as adding custom filter toggleā€™s could be as complex or simple as we write the search.

It would be nice to name the saved toggle with a custom name. As well as be able to easily edit its search string.

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#20

+1 to this, it was so nice to discover that i could color-code my graph by queries, and was really disappointing to see that those settings couldnā€™t be saved. Saved graph groups, please!

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#21

Yes this is the missing Killer feature. I would look at Notionā€™s View feature on their Tables for inspiration. Extremely useful!

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#22

I need to save different graph presets too :pleading_face:

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#23

Seeing this request from a year ago made me hopeful this exists already. Scrolling all the way down showed me this wasnā€™t the case.
Adding +1 - please add graph filter/color presets. Also, maybe a way to embed these in a link.

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#24

+1 Very important feature since workspaces donā€™t save graph filtering settings (see here).

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#25

one approach to do this is to make a file type graph and then it can be toggled between graph view and editing view.

The graph view read the yaml code in the file and generate the filter.

example:

---
type: graph 
---

filters: 
  tags: 
    ...
  groups: 
    ...
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#26

+1 It would be so helpful for filtering and also coloring in different tags (e.g. progress vs. topic)

#27

+1 People who use the graph view for exploration and inspiration likely hop between different views to include or exclude items to make the experience fruitful. This could be achieved a number of ways. A simple way could just be a drop-down menu in the graph view with presets. This was also a terrifc idea and in keeping with the Obsidian philosophy of using notes as the core medium of the system.

#28

+1 for this; it would be very helpful!

#29

+1 I think that the graph view is a great idea but needs some more features like this to be truly useful

#30

+1 This would be great

#31

+1 Looking forward!

#32

+1 for this; it would be very helpful!

#33

+1 great idea