Use case or problem Although the graph view is very useful, I don’t always find it useful to be able to find ALL notes there. For example, daily notes: You can create a whole lot of them, and most often, not really useful to see 300 of these notes in the graph view. Also it sometimes makes me think whether I’d want something to show up in the graph. And if no, maybe I shouldn’t create that note. Because it’ll also clog up the graph, make everything less clear and make the graph slower. I think the graph view is great to get an overview over your notes, but seeing unnecessary notes there takes away from the clear organized overview. Yes, you can use the search function to exclude certain folders, but it gets pretty annoying to type in a certain query everytime you want to use the graph. Not to mention that the search query can become pretty long if you want to search for something, and at the same time want to exclude a bunch of folders. Proposed solution Best option imo is to simply create a checkbox in the right click menu of folders (and maybe separate notes) that says something like “hide from graph view”. If that option is selected, all notes in that folder won’t be displayed in the graph view.

FYI this exact feature has been requested a couple of times before: [image] Disable notes from graph view Feature requests Similar to to filter the graph view-request I would like to control what notes that show up in the graph view. However, I propose that this could be an toggle-able attribute of each file or folder. Some exemples: The template for the Daily Notes, I want to be able to edit it in Obsidian but not include it in the graph view. The Daily Notes themselves I want to be able to show or not show in the graph Some notes I use for planning and they include several different larger areas and make the gr… [image] Remove certain notes from graph view (not via tag exclusion) Feature archive Hey everybody, I might not be the only person to wish for this, but I might be the first to express it. I’d like it to be possible to flag certain notes to not appear in the graph view. Sometimes I write a longer text, that is not necessarily part of the network of notes, but references them. The longer the text becomes, and the more references are being made, they will have so much gravity within the graph view, that they tend to obscure the networks shape. Are there others out there intere… @moderators may want to merge these 3 threads

My apologies, I didn’t find these when I did a quick search for similar requests. I agree that dsteinbock’s request would solve this problem, maybe even better, albeit in a bit more complex way.

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