not a new request
posting it as a consolidated note as other requests are years old, and release of Obsidian own Pele engine changes context significantly.
Mermaid is by far the best visualization which matches Obsidian philosophy. Its text based, has least friction in capturing the idea (compared to WYSIWYG tools).
There are several ways we can deploy it, as to build moc, timelines, brainstorming ideas.
We had several such requests over years for incorporating document links. Now since have our own rendering (obsidianmd/pele), I assume it’s possible to incorporate this change (although I am not fully sure of this assumption).
This is one of the fantastic additions to Obsidian - that part I am sure though. Canvas is great, but mermaid provides true text-based visualization in Obsidian.
scope:
this request is for allowing Obsidian native document links
such as [[mydocument]] supported inside mermaid
with minimal technical hacks - such as hacking css etc.
old similar requests (not exaustive)
- Support backlinks and graph view for internal links defined within Mermaid (Pele) diagrams - Feature requests - Obsidian Forum
- Internal-links gantt in mermaid - #3 by renatomen
- Support of links to notes in mermaid mindmap - Feature requests - Obsidian Forum
- Adding mermaid internal-links to backlinks\graphs - Feature requests - Obsidian Forum
etc.