Smart Connections Graph View

Welcome to the Smart Connections Graph View Plugin! This plugin integrates seamlessly with the Smart Connections tool, offering an advanced, interactive way to visualize connections between your notes. Our goal is to enhance your ability to discover relationships and insights within your notes, transforming the way you interact with and understand your information.

Features

• Dynamic Force-Directed Graph: Visualize connections as a force-directed graph where nodes represent notes or specific excerpts from them and edges represent connections.
• Adjustable Visualization Settings: Customize node size, link thickness, and text fade thresholds to tailor the visualization to your preferences.
• Interactive Tooltips: Hover over links to see detailed information about connections.
• Customizable Forces: Adjust the repel force, link force, and center force for a more personalized layout.

Installation

Getting started with the Smart Connections Graph View Plugin is easy. Follow these steps to install and integrate it with your Smart Connections setup:

1. Install Smart Connections: Ensure you have the Smart Connections plugin installed in your Obsidian environment.
2. Install Visualization Plugin: Download and install the Smart Connections Visualization Plugin from the Obsidian Community Plugins.

Usage

Once installed, the Smart Connections Visualization Plugin provides an intuitive interface to explore your notes' connections. Click on the dice icon to the left that says "Smart Graph"

Opening the Visualization

To open the visualization:

1. Open the command palette and select "Smart Connections: Open Visualization."
2. The visualization pane will appear, displaying a dynamic force-directed graph of your notes and their connections.

Interacting with the Graph

• Zooming: Use the mouse wheel or touchpad to zoom in and out of the graph.
• Panning: Click and drag the graph to move it around.
• Hovering: Hover over links to see tooltips displaying connection details.

Customizing the Visualization

Access the settings menu by clicking the gear icon in the top right corner of the visualization pane. Here, you can adjust various parameters:

• Score Threshold: Adjust the threshold for displaying connections based on their relevance.
• Node Size: Change the size of the nodes to make them more visible or to declutter the graph.
• Link Thickness: Modify the thickness of the links to better visualize connection strengths.
• Text Fade Threshold: Set the zoom level at which labels fade in and out.
• Repel Force: Adjust the force that pushes nodes apart.
• Link Force: Modify the strength of the connections.
• Center Force: Change the force that keeps the graph centered.

Community and Support

Your involvement is crucial to the evolution of Smart Connections Graph View. From troubleshooting issues to suggesting new features, every contribution enriches our community and drives the project forward!

Join Our Community

• GitHub Discussions: Participate in discussions on GitHub to share your experiences and ask questions.
• Contribute: Help develop the plugin, report issues, or suggest new features.
• User Testimonials: Share how the plugin has impacted your workflow and creativity.

Acknowledgements

Special thanks to Brian, the developer behind Smart Connections.

License

The Smart Connections Visualization Plugin is open-source and available under the MIT License. Contributions are welcome!

About Me

Hi! Name's Evan Moscoso, and right now I'm a senior software developer/architect consultant for General Dynamics, contracted out to the CDC to manage and develop data visualization tools. I've been obsessed about what's transpiring with AI for the last 15 years, knowing that it would soon change the world like this. The text communication format between us and AI is incredibly inefficient, and I believe data visualization tools like this will not only exponentially enhance our ability to communicate with AI, but create a new discovery and decision making process that'll change how we go about virtually everything we do. Our brains can't physically retain all the information and use logic with it. We need to visualize in order to save state and keep progressing in complex problems. I can hear the music.. and I want nothing more to improve how we communicate and make better decisions.

Inspired by Brian (creator of Smart Connections), I started an AI consulting company "Evan's Oasis" where I audit business workflows of clients and suggest AI tools and practices to significantly increase decision making, productivity, and quality– all while cutting down on time and money needed to run a business.

I've continuosly been giving webinars to both CDC and GDIT on the most significant AI updates, as well as in-person local community seminars around the Tampa Bay area. One of my life's main questlines is to inspire people to take advantage of the outragous new abilities we have with AI and how we can use them to help us in our every day lives.

I'd really like to go all in on my AI consulting company and continue development on this when I can afford to :)

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Feel free to reach out with any questions or suggestions. We hope this plugin enhances your note-taking experience and helps you uncover new insights and connections within your notes. Happy visualizing!