Reference note with links to other notes and blocks from other notes without actually connecting these notes

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What I’m trying to do

Create reference note with lot of links to other notes without making connections that will appear in local graph or graphview.

Things I have tried

searched in the forum …couldnot find solution

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Can you say why you don’t want the links in the graph? Some more explanation might help someone give a better suggestion.

You can use Obsidian URLs. They don’t show up in the graph. But they are a bit harder to make, because you need to run the command on the file. There is no auto-complete like regular links. And you have to put the link inside a Markdown link like this:

[Your Note](obsidian://open?vault=YourVault&file=Your%20Note)

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Coming at it from the other direction, you could potentially filter the graph to exclude them. https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view#Filters (If you do that, make sure to bookmark the graph, which will allow you to return to that graph configuration if you ever change it.)

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Yet another approach could be to use queries to generate the reference notes, as links then wouldn’t show in the graph.

So you do need to explain your use case a little more.

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Thank you for the suggestions…

i will try to explain better.

i have a large collection of notes and i typically use the local graph with show neighboring links enabled.

now i want to quickly make a concise note for revision purpose from various other notes and as i write the important pointe in this revision note from the main notes, adding the link to the main note will be helpful if i want to read it again while revising the revision note.

But now as i am adding links to multiple unrelated notes, and i typically like to have the neigboring links in filter enabled, it becomes cluttered and useless.

(i can just delete the revision note later when i am done to bring everything back to normal)

but for the meantime i was exploring some other options…

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this works like a charm.
thank you …

btw, i have bookmarked the local graph…

is there any way to export the settings of local graph in case it gets accidentally closed. ?

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I don’t know that.

Good suggestion from Cawlin! Adding to that: You could use a special tag for these notes. Like “directory” or “listing” or “exclude”.

Then filter on that tag. And keep that tag permanently filtered in your graph, instead of a bookmark.

Then when you make a new note like that, it will be automatically filtered.

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this plugin may help preventing the accidental loss of settings in local graph

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Thank you.
by using tags , its even better to exclude files from graph

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That’s what the bookmark is for — it saves the graph settings. When you click the bookmark, it opens the graph with the settings it has at the time it was bookmarked. If you want to further back it up, the bookmarks are stored in a file in the hidden .obsidian folder in the vault, so it should already be included in your normal backups (if you don’t have automatic backups of the files you care about, that should be a top priority).

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bookmarking doesnot work for local graphs right ?

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You said above that you had bookmarked it so I assumed you could. But you’re right, local graphs can’t be bookmarked (which makes sense now that I think about it): https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Bookmarks#Add+a+bookmark (“Bookmark a graph” callout).

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thank you …

and yes i can save the local graphs presets using this plugin. …

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