I also use Obsidian for Zettelcasten and have similar problems but I would prefer some filter customization instead of simple .gitignore.
About my case. I use folders like classes. One group of folders is References. One note is one reference. It might ba a video or web page or note in Evernote or note with description of a file and etc. I don’t want to see it on graphs (untill it’s not a local graph of the reference note) and search results but I I’d like to see hints with possible names when I do want to link a note with some reference note.
Possible solution is to add preferenceses for each folder with options:
- Notes in folder appear on graph
- Notes in folder appear on local graphs
- Notes in folder appear in hints with options
- As usual
- Only after entering of name of folder (like when you type a name of a class and after adding “.” you see an autocompletion suggestion with possible subclasses which are notes in the folder)
- Do not appear
If you decide to add preferences for each folder, it would be great to see also default templates for notes, created in folder.