Graph Explorer Base View

An Obsidian plugin that renders notes from an Obsidian Base as an interactive force-directed graph. Visualize relationships between notes, track exploration progress, and navigate your knowledge base through an intuitive graph interface.

Key features

  • Interactive force-directed graph with drag, pan, zoom, and smooth animations
  • Exploration tracking via frontmatter property, with progress bar and coverage stats
  • Rich node visualization with color, size, and shape driven by note metadata (explored status, confidence, wiki role, tags, creation date, or any frontmatter property)
  • Side panel showing full rendered note content with interactive wikilinks
  • Search and filter by name, explored status, and more
  • Keyboard navigation for accessibility (Tab, Arrow keys, Enter, Escape)
  • Batch operations to toggle explored status on multiple notes at once
  • Frontier nodes showing unresolved links (notes that don’t exist yet)
  • Context menu with quick actions (open, mark explored, copy wikilink, batch select)
  • View presets for common workflows (LLM Wiki Explorer, Exploration Progress, Role Overview)

Installation

  1. In Obsidian, go to Settings → Community plugins.
  2. Disable Restricted mode if it’s enabled.
  3. Select Browse, search for Graph Explorer Base View, install it, then enable it.

You can also browse the catalog on the Obsidian Community website.

Manual installation

If the plugin isn’t listed in the community catalog yet (or you want a specific version):

  1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
  2. Copy them into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/graph-explorer-base-view/.
  3. Reload Obsidian and enable Graph Explorer Base View in Settings → Community plugins.

BRAT (bleeding edge)

BRAT (Beta Reviewers Auto-update Tool) installs plugins straight from a GitHub repo and keeps them updated automatically. Use this if you want the latest commits — things might break.

  1. Install Obsidian42 - BRAT from Settings → Community plugins → Browse and enable it.
  2. Run BRAT: Add a beta plugin for testing from the command palette.
  3. Paste https://github.com/dsebastien/obsidian-graph-explorer-base-view.
  4. Select the latest version and confirm.
  5. Enable Graph Explorer Base View in Settings → Community plugins.

Quick start

  1. Install the plugin (see Installation above).
  2. Create a new Base in your vault (or open an existing one).
  3. Select Graph Explorer as the view type.
  4. Your notes appear as an interactive graph — click any node to see its content in the side panel.

About

Created by Sébastien Dubois.

This site uses Just the Docs, a documentation theme for Jekyll.