I Will Never Leave the Graph View

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by yaye.work

Preview, edit, and create notes without ever leaving the graph view. - This plugin has not been manually reviewed by Obsidian staff.

↓ 103 downloadsUpdated 24d agoMIT
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Never Leave the Graph View

An Obsidian plugin for a graph-first workflow: preview, edit, and create notes without ever leaving the graph view.

The graph stops being a read-only map and becomes the place you actually work.

How do I never leave the graph view?

You will now summon a companion pane in the right sidebar, whenever you open the graph view.

  • Hover a node in the graph view → preview it. Quickly browse through your notes by hovering on the nodes.

  • Click an existing node → edit it directly in the campanion pane. Hell yeah dude, hell yeah.

Hover Node to Preview and Click to Edit

  • Click a greyed-out node → create it. The note is created at that node's position. Opened for editing immediately. Leave without typing and it quietly deletes itself, reverting the node to grey.

  • Add a note anywhere. A button in the graph's control bar, or right-click empty canvas → New note here — the note is born at that exact spot.

make new node

  • Filter-aware creation. With a graph filter active, new notes are made to match it (created in a path: folder, seeded with a tag: or search term) so they don't vanish on creation. When conforming isn't possible, the filter is briefly lifted and restored once the note qualifies on its own.

  • An lone eye watching over you, because why not A little bit of fun. Click to edit a note to make it happy.

The companion pane appears whenever a graph view is open and closes with it.

Installation (manual)

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
  2. Copy them into <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/graph-node-preview/.
  3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins.

Notes

This plugin drives Obsidian's graph renderer through internals that aren't part of the public API, so a future Obsidian update could require adjustments.

Feedback & Support

Thank you for using Never Leave the Graph View! If you run into a bug or have an idea, please open an issue. Feature requests and bug reports are very welcome.

And if you find NLTGV useful, you can:

buymea bubbletea

It's genuinely appreciated.

Happy noting! Yaye

License

MIT © yaye.work · hi@yaye.work

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