Disclaimer
Is this plugin open source? Yes (MIT)
Is this plugin completely free? Yes
Is this plugin vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No
Community Directory: https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/vault-orrery
Hi everyone,
Vault Orrery is a community plugin that shows your vault as a 3D star
system. Each folder is a star, its notes orbit it, and links arc between
them. This is my own vault, with 329 notes and 655 links:
I built it because the core graph view becomes hard to read past a few
hundred notes. With folders as stars, the picture has a structure. A busy
folder looks busy, links across folders show as long arcs, and notes
nothing links to drift off into ARCHIVE groups.
What it does:
- Genesis (G): the sky empties, then refills note by note in the order
you wrote them. You can scrub the timeline. - Inspector: click a planet to see the note’s properties, an excerpt,
its links and backlinks. Ctrl/Cmd-click opens it beside the view. - Mind map (M / double-click): one note’s neighbourhood, two hops out.
- Route: the shortest path between two notes.
- Search (/): across notes and front-matter properties.
- Broken links, counted and filterable.
- Poster (P): a high-resolution PNG with no HUD.
- Quality presets for large vaults, and an interface in English, 한국어,
日本語 and 中文.
It makes no network requests at runtime: no telemetry and no CDN.
Try it in your browser (nothing to install, nothing uploaded):
https://elliott-json-park.github.io/obsidian-vault-orrery/
Install: Settings → Community plugins → Browse → “Vault Orrery” (desktop only)
Source & issues: https://github.com/elliott-json-park/obsidian-vault-orrery
Feedback is very welcome. I’d especially like to hear how it runs on
large vaults.