obsidian-visualizer

Providing core obsidian features in VSCode: graphs, backlinks,...

VSCode marketplace: Obsidian Visualizer

Usage

Install the extension, it will read workspace on startup. After intial read, you can view global graph, local graph

If graphs doesn't rendered as intended: Command Pallete > Force workspace parse

Notes: Event listener under the hood for files editing, disable the extension if it cause performance problems.

Features

• Local graph: open a markdown file, Command Pallete > Show Local Graph
• Global graph: Command Pallette > Show Global graph
• Force reparse: Command Pallette > Force workspace parse
• Link resolve given a filename or a path
• GUI
  • highlighted when mouse over a node
  • toggle forward links, backlinks
  • showing non-exist files (as blurred)
• Search (global graph only)
  • filename: (starts search with filename:)
  • path: (starts search with path:)

Note: it will included all markdown files recursively starting from the root directory of current workspace, multiple workspace not supported

Run from source

Web

npm run watch-web  
npm run run-in-browser //another terminal 

VSCode Desktop (run from VSCode)

Press F5 or Command Pallete >Debug: Start Debugging

Release Notes

1.1.2

• Add more notifications

• Fix bugs:

• Searching filter out nodes in relationship with result nodes, that is not part of the results.
• Empty files (which was skipped in previous versions) is now tracked.
• Virtual nodes now has a undefined (null-ish) uri instead of a placeholder like before

1.1.1

• Remove relative links
• Fix text display in virtual file
• Fix graph reparse on events bug

1.1.0

• Desktop supports

1.0.0

• Initial release of obsidian visualizer
• Local & Global graph rendering.
• Decent GUI: toggle links, highlightings nodes
• Search with filename and path
• Only for web version