#1

I’m not sure how useful this would be for everyone, so maybe this should be in Plugins. Anyway, when in a heavily interlinked vault, with lots of zettelkasten-style notes, I for one would love a way to outline connections between two different notes. Say there are two topics, and I want to see how they relate and take advantage of this network-style approach. I would select the two notes, and paths between them would be highlighted.

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#2

I think that could be a good idea, but problem is that the number of possible paths can be huge if your notes are well-connected. Maybe just show the shortest path?

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#3

Hmm, I didn’t think of that. And it wouldn’t really make sense for Obsidian to require more powerful hardware for such a feature.
I don’t think that showing the shortest path is a perfect solution, either. As far as I know, the only way to solve this sort of a maze is through trying every possible path, at least with a conventional programming. There’s an entire wikipedia page on the shortest path problem, so it sounds like a big task.

#4

…perhaps this would work if you could filter direct, one step and two step paths? Would find key linking notes and tags.

#5

No, one absolutely does not have to try every possible path to find one (or all) shortest path between two notes. In Obsidian’s case, a simple Breadth-first search is sufficient. Notice that this search can be implemented such that its running time is independent of your graph size.
Thus finding a shortest path would absolutely not be a problem computationally, but whether a shortest path is meaningful highly depends on your use case of course.

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#6

Just updating this to mention the Journey plugin. Doesn’t show up in the graph view, but fulfills my purposes just fine.

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