Orbit

Orbit is an Obsidian plugin that visualizes your vault as an organized orbital cosmos, modeling your notes as orbiting nodes.

Demo Video

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6a513e60-4193-4f7b-a76d-693ae1f9e399

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Features

• An Organized Orbital Cosmos: Visualize hierarchical relationships in your vault. Child notds orbit around their parent nodes, forming multi-layered recursive planetary systems.
• Customization: Customize the orbit graph's theme, rotation speed, orbit radius, node size and more in the settings panel.
• Node Focus: Right-click a node to focus on it. The camera will follow the focused node while dimming unrelated nodes.

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Orbit Methods(Sources)

Orbit supports four distinct ways to model parent-child links in your vault, customizable directly inside the settings panel:

1. Frontmatter Metadata: Specify gravity_parent: Parent Note in your note's YAML frontmatter.
2. Tags: Turn any tag (e.g., #ideas, #projects) into a central star! Notes sharing a tag will dynamically orbit around a beautifully rendered. If no notes exist for a specific tag, virtual tag nodes will take its place.
3. Outlinks: Automatically model links inside a note ([[Parent Note]]) as outbound parental paths.
4. Backlinks: Model backlinks from other notes as inbound child pathways.

• If a parent-child relationship forms a cycle, arbitrary edges will be ignored in the orbit view

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Settings & Customization

• Theme: Select light(white-and-gray like obsidian graph view), dark(black-and-white) and celestial(realistic solar system colors).
• Sibling Sort Order: Choose how same-level nodes are arranged (File Size, Created Time, Modified Time, or Alphabetical).
• Orbit Speed: Control the velocity of nodes. Uses realistic orbital physics (nodes closer to the center orbit faster).
• Orbit Radius Scale: Scale the radius of all orbit ($0.5\text{x} - 2.0\text{x}$).
• Node Size Scale: Adjust the sizing of nodes ($0.5\text{x} - 2.0\text{x}$).
• Galactic Rotation: Rotate top-level nodes around their centroid so the entire graph resembles one galaxy.
• Many Seamless Toggles:
  • Orbit traces
  • parent-child lines
  • lone nodes
  • single-parent nodes
  • multi-parent nodes
  • oval/circle orbit for dual-parent nodes

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Crafted with by studiogamma.

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