Excellent channel! I have been using Obsidian at work and home for years. I find the Local Graph super useful. As a simple example, I maintain a cookbook in an Obsidian vault. I can access the local graph to see all the ingredients in a recipe and click to find other recipes that use the same ingredient 👍
Hi - great content, and have subscribed. One feature of the graph view which I think you didn’t mention is the ability to use the ‘local graph’ view when in a note. This can be useful for showing the connections visually, especially if you want to see 2nd and 3rd (or 4th, 5th etc) level connections to that note, without all of the other unrelated notes in the view.
Good point! I have found the local graph to be a lot more useful than the entire vault graph. I should mention that in a future video. Thank you for your comment, and for subscribing!
I feel like a way to make graph view more useful is to have the option to (plugin?) emphasize certain connections more than other. Maybe changing the line thickness of a connection to emphasize it, how close they are, or the color. This way you guarantee you see the main connections with notes with a LOT of connections.
Thank you for your thoughts! There are some ways to change the emphasis on nodes using colors, and I think the node size changes based on the number of connections. I'll have to take a look at it again!
Glad to have found your channel. I've been using Obsidian massively for a few months for a project where I'm attempting to map a domain. The graph has been relatively handy, especially like for what you said, to identify orphans and links that I set up incorrectly. More recently, I used it to develop a curriculum for self-studies, and I've enjoyed using the graph view in there as well to see which topics I've studied, which I am currently studying, and which I have left to study. The color coding is pretty useful, although I am still organizing everything manually. Apparently, I haven't even scratched the surface in terms of features, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can learn from you.
Glad you're enjoying the videos! And I'm glad you're enjoying the graph view! It may be that I just need to spend a little more time with it to find how it works best for me.
Something I noticed while playing with tags. If I use the "property" section (which I believe means the YAML or "Front Matter" section) then I don't get the new tag entered onto the "tags list" on the side panel. Which means I can't fast tag something later. 1. Why? 2. Why does adding tags in the YAML section differ than using the #tag command?
Just to make sure I understand what you're asking, when you include a tag in a property it's not showing up in your list of tags? I haven't seen this problem myself.
Excellent channel! I have been using Obsidian at work and home for years. I find the Local Graph super useful. As a simple example, I maintain a cookbook in an Obsidian vault. I can access the local graph to see all the ingredients in a recipe and click to find other recipes that use the same ingredient 👍
Wow, that’s awesome! That’s an awesome use of the graph view! Sounds like something I’ll have to try out myself 😁
Hi - great content, and have subscribed. One feature of the graph view which I think you didn’t mention is the ability to use the ‘local graph’ view when in a note. This can be useful for showing the connections visually, especially if you want to see 2nd and 3rd (or 4th, 5th etc) level connections to that note, without all of the other unrelated notes in the view.
Good point! I have found the local graph to be a lot more useful than the entire vault graph. I should mention that in a future video. Thank you for your comment, and for subscribing!
I feel like a way to make graph view more useful is to have the option to (plugin?) emphasize certain connections more than other. Maybe changing the line thickness of a connection to emphasize it, how close they are, or the color. This way you guarantee you see the main connections with notes with a LOT of connections.
Thank you for your thoughts! There are some ways to change the emphasis on nodes using colors, and I think the node size changes based on the number of connections. I'll have to take a look at it again!
Glad to have found your channel. I've been using Obsidian massively for a few months for a project where I'm attempting to map a domain. The graph has been relatively handy, especially like for what you said, to identify orphans and links that I set up incorrectly. More recently, I used it to develop a curriculum for self-studies, and I've enjoyed using the graph view in there as well to see which topics I've studied, which I am currently studying, and which I have left to study. The color coding is pretty useful, although I am still organizing everything manually. Apparently, I haven't even scratched the surface in terms of features, though, so I'm looking forward to seeing what I can learn from you.
Glad you're enjoying the videos! And I'm glad you're enjoying the graph view! It may be that I just need to spend a little more time with it to find how it works best for me.
Ha… and here’s one! So, thanks for this one too!!
You’re welcome! I’m planning a follow up video sometime soon as I’ve been experimenting with some different ways to make the Graph useful.
Something I noticed while playing with tags. If I use the "property" section (which I believe means the YAML or "Front Matter" section) then I don't get the new tag entered onto the "tags list" on the side panel. Which means I can't fast tag something later. 1. Why? 2. Why does adding tags in the YAML section differ than using the #tag command?
Just to make sure I understand what you're asking, when you include a tag in a property it's not showing up in your list of tags? I haven't seen this problem myself.