New Plugin: Note Link Graph UI

goliath-walker · 2022-03-31T06:32:49.817Z

Link hover feature

hover-feature

Plugin settings

"max degree of separation"

maxDegree = 0 will show the whole graph (default: 0).
For bigger note count (hundreds or thousands of notes), it is recommended to set maxDegree to > 0. Values 2 or 3 are optimal in most cases.

"Include note back-links for selected note"

Enabling this checkbox will activate backlinks/referrers, as known in other plugins like Joplin Link System.
(default: disabled)

"Show note link direction arrows"

If you want the direction marks at the target side of note edges (default: disabled).

In future, users can customize all colors them selves via CSS setting.

Happy note traversing!

kartoo · 2022-04-01T02:44:59.471Z

Is it possible to create new notes right inside the node graph? That way one does not need to manually link them unless necessary.

goliath-walker · 2022-04-02T12:29:47.649Z

@kartoo There is the plugin Quick Links: just type @@ and create a new note or link to an existent one - this is really cool.

You can also use Create Note From Text to extract existing text to a new note.

kartoo · 2022-04-03T06:03:57.746Z

Thanks but that is not what I was asking for. What I am asking for is being able to create notes/links right in the graph, see https://www.thebrain.com/

goliath-walker · 2022-04-03T08:18:52.076Z

I understood your question. But does this make sense in the context of Joplin compared to a mind map?

Say for current note A you want to make a link to new to be created note B. Hence there is a link reference inside note content A needed. Where exactly in A should the link be inserted?

If you are asking to append this new link to the end of A - no, that's not possible atm.
The idea itself is interesting - some kind of context menu with additional actions, when right clicking one of the notes in the graph.

kartoo · 2022-04-03T18:35:39.917Z

goliath-walker:

I understood your question. But does this make sense in the context of Joplin compared to a mind map?

Why not? The functionality and the necessary backend are almost there. Why stay in the linear note taking land if there is a possiblity to expand the idea of note taking to more freeform methods?

The new note can be created inside a default notebook, the user can move it to somewhere else later if needed.

goliath-walker · 2022-04-04T06:52:19.026Z

Can you post it as feature request, so this idea doesn't get lost?

GabrielMPhi · 2022-04-05T17:53:47.379Z

I would like to suggest an idea. The section of the stetting of the Notebooks names filter is mostly a list with a "," between names. I would like to suggest a modification. A few section text box that you can activate and deactivate.

The usecase is.
I have a few folder with journal notes. There, I make links with more thematic notes (for research mostly). It lets me remember me when I worked on what and when I was thinking about what. But, sometime, in the graph, I would like to see only the links between research notes. But, I would need to erease the names of all my journal likes note folders... and rewrite all their names if I want to reapply the filter.

A little checkbox before the textbox to active and deactivate the filter could make that (activate deactivate filter) far quicker and make my life easier.

Plus, making many such activate deactivate filter would hep if people would see some kind of link appear and not.

EDIT : I know that there are workaround, like putting most of the notebook in one that has a easy name to write and delete, but my suggestions is more "making things easier".

goliath-walker · 2022-04-15T10:40:28.501Z

@GabrielMPhi Next plugin version will include settings, which can be changed directly in the graph user interface. The first one will be a slider to set maximal note distance.

I guess we can later also do this for your mentioned notebook-filter. So you don't have to go in to settings menu and rather adjust directly on-the-fly in graph.

More on this shortly!

goliath-walker · 2022-04-16T08:14:49.226Z

Changes v1.5.0

Graph interface has "Max. distance" inline setting:

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Show Note tags when hovering over a node:

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cirrusL · 2022-09-20T22:06:08.829Z

First of all: Thank you for a great plugin!

I have an issue that may or may not involve me being very new to Joplin:

TL;DR: When filtering for notebooks with include, and e.g. 'A, B', only the first one, A, shows. Switch them up to 'B,A', and only B shows.

Details:
My workaround for not having several profiles, e.g. personal/work, is to simply have several notebooks with sub-notebooks. This means that I want to only include some of them in the graph at a time with all their sub-notebooks, hence I have 'filter childs' ON. However, when I fill in the filter list with 'Research Main, Books' for the two respective notebooks, only the first one show in the graph. If I switch the order of them, the graph changes to still only show the first. The first seem to show properly with all its children though. Note: Research Main and Books have seperate trees, i.e. none is included in the other, both are at the top and there are no other notebooks with the same names.

I'm getting the same behaviour on two different systems both running Ubuntu 18.04 and Joplin 2.6.10

goliath-walker · 2022-10-01T13:51:11.373Z

@cirrusL Do you have Max. distance set with a value > 0?
If yes, there has been a bug, where excluded notebooks ("Notebook names to filter") in Graph UI setting are only considered, when all notes are shown (max. distance 0).
Fix is already on the way and currently needs to be reviewed by maintainer.

NothingCtrl · 2023-09-08T07:07:59.013Z

Thanks for the plugin, is there any way to change the default zoom level, it is a little big for me. (tried changing the setting for "Size of the node label font" but no effect)

jb261 · 2023-10-28T12:18:16.755Z

cirrusL:

When filtering for notebooks with include, and e.g. 'A, B', only the first one, A, shows. Switch them up to 'B,A', and only B shows.

I have the same issue when filtering using Exclude. Only the first notebook in the comma separated list is actually excluded.

goliath-walker:

@cirrusL Do you have Max. distance set with a value > 0?
If yes, there has been a bug, where excluded notebooks ("Notebook names to filter") in Graph UI setting are only considered, when all notes are shown (max. distance 0).

Sounds like the bug I'm experiencing is the same as you are describing, except with max distance > 0, the excluded notebook list is considered, but the problem is only the first notebook in the list is excluded.

jb261 · 2023-10-28T12:21:27.727Z

For those using this plugin, do you just slide the layout separator as necessary to enlarge or shrink the graph pane? Wondering what the best currently available way to view/hide the graph is.

yiyian-Lee · 2023-11-02T03:04:00.911Z

if you want to change the layout of the window of this plugin, the best way I know is view -> modify layout.

and I close the window of this plugin, so the size do not influence my daily using joplin.

in my condition, I just set its window size occupy half of edit region. I ususally use joplin in only displaying markdown editor mode. so when click button of this plugin, it looks occupy half regiong of editor.

jb261 · 2023-11-02T16:45:28.859Z

I have modified the layout to place the graph window to the right of the editor window, and I slide the border to enlarge/shrink that window as needed. But it sounds like you have a way to toggle the graph window on and off (hopefully some method more convenient than Tools > Options > Plugins and then enabling/disabling Link Graph UI)?

yiyian-Lee · 2023-11-02T18:44:51.000Z

yes, the plugin add a button on toolbar of markdown editor. click it can switch displays / hide window.

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jb261 · 2023-11-02T19:59:16.662Z

oh, and there's a hotkey for it too! That's awesome, thanks!

pbergaus · 2024-02-07T09:07:21.251Z

Hello, this Plugin is awesome but is this still active in development?

The last update was 2 years ago.