Hierarchical Backlinks

Overview

Displays backlinks for the active document as a hierarchy based on the folder structure of the references.

Motivation

In the age old folders vs tags debate I lean heavier on physically organizing notes into high level categories of directories. The tag hierarchy display provides a nice overview of tags and how they relate to each other and I wanted something similar that leveraged the directory structure to display backlinks as a tree.

Example

Here's a comparison of the core plugin vs the hierarchical backlinks plugin in action.

This is how the out-of-the-box core backlinks plugin displays backlinks:

This is how this plugin displays backlinks:

Features

• Collapsable tree structure allows you to easily focus on what what is most important
• Clickable links to references

Settings

Commands

The following commands are available in the Obsidian Command Palett:

Development

Setup

npm install

Running

npm run dev