HiDe — hierarchical deconstruction of skills

A graph where every skill is built from its foundations. Pick a skill and the camera zooms in: its foundations unfold beneath it, and faded "ghosts" above show what the skill is used for. Arrows point from foundation to skill.

How data is stored

Everything is plain notes — the plugin keeps no database:

---
requires: ["[[Empathy]]", "[[Sentence building]]"]   # what the skill is built from
state: done                                           # optional, sets the node color
---

requires are property links, so Obsidian's own graph, backlinks and rename-updates keep working. A skill is any note inside the plugin folder (default Hierarchical deconstruction) or any note with a requires property. Node positions, states and force settings live in the plugin's data.json.

Features

• Graph view (ribbon icon or command Open hierarchical deconstruction): click = focus, double-click = open note, right-click = menu.
• The interface is English; it switches to Russian automatically when Obsidian is set to Russian.
• + Node creates a new skill; the + under a selected node opens the same dialog and attaches the new node as a foundation of the selected one (an existing title is linked, not duplicated).
• Local graph of any note with adjustable depth.
• Editable states with colors; live force sliders (center, repel, link strength/distance, hierarchy pull, line width).
• Cycles are rejected: a skill can't be built from something built from it.
• Physics by d3-force and WebGL rendering (PIXI), like the core graph.

Install (manual)

Copy main.js, manifest.json, styles.css into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/hide/ and enable the plugin.

Development

npm install
npm run build

Release: bump the version in manifest.json and versions.json, push a git tag equal to the version — the workflow publishes the release.