Graph+

Graph+ is an exploratory graph for Obsidian: a place to move through the ideas in your vault, not just a dashboard about them.

Obsidian’s native graph is a useful map. Graph+ keeps that spirit and adds a more spatial, interactive workflow for creating, returning, reflecting, and discovering:

• Open the whole vault in 2D or 3D.
• Keep meaningful node locations between sessions.
• Focus on a note and its neighborhood.
• Filter the graph while leaving your notes and links unchanged.
• Preview notes while you explore.
• Use filters, regions, and layout controls to look at the same vault from different angles.

Graph+ is for Obsidian users who think through connections—writers, researchers, students, knowledge workers, and anyone whose vault becomes more useful when they can see relationships spatially. It is especially useful after notes and links have accumulated and you want to return to the vault with a question: What connects to this? Where are the clusters? What did I overlook?

Graph+ 2.0 is intentionally foundational. It establishes the persistent 2D/3D graph, interaction model, rendering system, and plugin platform. Larger exploratory tools are planned for future releases.

How to use Graph+

Open the global or local graph

Use any of these entry points:

• Click the network ribbon icon.
• Run the open graph+ command from the command palette.
• Right-click a Markdown file and choose show in graph+ to open the graph with that note available as the starting point.

Graph+ has two related views:

• Global graph shows the vault-wide graph. Use it to explore broad clusters, connections, orphan notes, and the overall shape of your knowledge base.
• Local graph shows the same vault graph in a compact pane, starts in Focus on the active note, and follows subsequent active-note changes.

The global graph is the place for broad discovery and spatial organization. The local graph is the place for following one idea, note, or thread through that same world. They are two presentation modes of the same Graph+ application. Node coordinates and pins are shared; each pane keeps its own camera, filters, View, selection, and Focus. Global starts in Overview, while Local starts in Focus and follows the active note.

Explore and navigate

Choose a constellation in Overview, then click one of its members to enter Focus. Add visible candidates to build the constellation; click the background to move back one View. Drag nodes to arrange the shared space; Graph+ persists node placement and pins for the vault. Camera framing, filters, Focus, and selection belong to the individual pane.

On desktop, use pointer, wheel, keyboard, and modifier interactions. On touch devices, use one- and two-finger gestures for graph movement and navigation. The exact gesture behavior follows the active graph dimension and focus state.

Refine what you see

Use the graph controls to:

• Search for nodes with Filter nodes….
• Include or hide tag nodes and orphan notes.
• Reset the current filters.