Hi, I’m Fred. Before deep dive into the story, I am not a stakeholder in Obsidian, just one of the users. I will show you how I use the graph view in Obsidian.
What is Obsidian?
First, I will introduce Obsidian roughly.
Obsidian is an application that can help you to expand and organize your knowledge. You can do this by creating some local text files or folders. The core feature of Obsidian is to create a link between your notes. You can visualize it as a graph. You can see your knowledge by graph and nodes, and directly go into the file by clicking it.
How I use Graph View in Obsidian?
As you saw in the thumbnail, I use it for visualizing my daily results. This provides three advantages over not using it.
First, feeling satisfied after handling all of the daily tasks.
Have you felt satisfied or content when you clicked the “Day 21” checkbox at the end of the day? For me, I reply like this. “Never.” I had felt only exhausted when I completed daily work before I used graph view. It can visualize our daily life, so when I connect a node to the ‘succeed graph’, I can see it merged and feel rejoice.
Second, easy to search for the day when I want to find it.
I set the core node as monthly, so I can find the day easier than a list of files.
Lastly, I can see the incremental growth.
It’s similar to the first one that I introduced to you. Day after day, I can see a gradual increase in my successful days. I work hard every day because I want to see the big dandelion in Obsidian!
My setting in Obsidian
So, if you are the viewer who wants to set like me, then I’ll share my graph view setting.
I recommend you to have a new folder that has daily resources. Just like the image below. I named it ‘Daily Work’. And when I create files, I move them into this folder.
In daily result files, such as ‘2024–01–23’, if you finish your work or your day, link the other file named ‘succeed’. Just like the image below. I have some layers, such as year and month, so I connect a day to monthly success.
In my case, I want to merge all of the months into the year so I have one more layer.
Lastly, You have to set your filters in the graph view. I don’t want to see other files like ‘README.md’. So, I filtered it by this option -file:README . If it’s OK, then just set path limits like path:"Daily Work" .
Then you can see your dandelions! Great!
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