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Link Exploder

benhughesbenhughes36k downloads

Link Exploder creates a canvas from a note, embedding it's incoming (i.e. backlinks) and outgoing links onto the canvas (as well as the their linked notes).

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🔗💣 Overview

🎉 0.3 Release: Now with support for setting the destination of the created canvas (thanks @UNEXENU)

Link Exploder is a Obsidian plugin that creates a canvas from a note, embedding it's incoming (i.e. backlinks) and outgoing links onto the canvas (as well as the their linked notes). The new canvas will be added to your root directory using the name of the note it's based off.

Use Cases

  • Useful for converting those MoCs (Map of Contents) into a visual map visually exploring topics and how they interact with each other.
  • Starting a canvas using items in your vault. Create a new note with a few links to topics you want to explore then call the "Create Canvas From File Links" action and you'll have a new canvas which pulls in the notes you linked as well as their linked notes too.
  • An interactive version of your local graph.

Examples

Example Example

Install

Now available on the plugin marketplace! Get it here

Usage

After installation navigate to a page you would like to create a canvas version of and then use the "Create Canvas From File Links" action from the command palette

Notes

  • this is a first release so very basic at the moment
  • Love to hear feedback on features to make this better.
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Create a canvas from a note that embeds its outgoing links, incoming backlinks, and those linked notes to visualize topic connections. Save the new canvas to the vault root or a chosen destination, named after the source note.
CanvasVisualizationLinks
Details
Current version
0.3.0
Last updated
3 years ago
Created
4 years ago
Updates
9 releases
Downloads
36k
Compatible with
Obsidian 1.1.0+
Platforms
Desktop, Mobile
License
MIT
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Author
benhughesbenhughes
github.com/benhughes
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