Group force in graph view

[AHedgehogEnjoyer]

Use case or problem

My graph tends to be made of interlinked themes. Each theme has a group and color associated with it but I dislike how certain groups tend to spread out too far. To fix this I’d propose another force named something like “group gravity“ which would cause the predefined groups to cluster together.

I’d imagine this would be implemented in much the same way as center force except instead of attraction to (0,0) it takes the average of the group nodes current position

[ShaneNZ]

+1 to this, and I think there is a general problem and solution here: having force(s) in the graph that only affect a subset of nodes - in this case basically a slider for “apply force to group”, with 0 being no effect. But having a slider for folders, a slider.for note type (.md, .canvas, .base) or a slider for tags could allow for a lot of.flexibility in creating different views into the vault.

This thread for example talks about the idea oriented to folders:

Create a graph based on the folder structure

I found this thread because I was looking for a way to bunch together/group nodes in the graph by their proximity in the folder hierarchy. Notes that only share the same root folder would push each other further away, whilst those in the same sub-sub-sub-folder would pull together. With these two rules it should already cause the grouping to happen quite naturally, and if they were sliders in the already existing graph, one can tweak them to their liking (even disabling them fully).

[AHedgehogEnjoyer]

Thanks for linking the thread.
I must’ve missed it in my search since I only looked for groups.

[slimhk45]

+1 for group “gravity”

seems similar to these two previous suggestions that were sadly left unanswered

Stronger Forces Between Groups in Graph View

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How do I make notes of the same group closer to each other in graph view?

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