RelationshipGraph

A canvas-based relationship graph for Obsidian that treats notes as nodes and lets you visually create, edit, and navigate connections between them.

This is not a tag system, and not the built-in graph view. It’s a manual, spatial graph you control directly.

What it does

This plugin creates a dedicated graph view where:

• Each node represents a Markdown note

• Nodes are positioned in 2D space and persist their coordinates in frontmatter

• Edges represent relationships between notes and are stored separately in JSON

• Everything is interactive: click, drag, connect, rename, delete

• Nodes are real files. The graph is just a visual layer on top.

Node Scope (Read This Before You Get Confused)

This plugin does not pull in your entire vault. Only notes inside the configured node folder (default: GraphNodes) exist in the graph.

That’s intentional. If it scanned everything, it would inject metadata into random notes.

So instead, it works like a controlled sandbox:

• you create nodes → files are created for you

• those files are the graph

• everything else is ignored

If you don’t see a note in the graph, it’s because it isn’t a node.