🌲 It’s Not Just a Pretty Gimmick: In Defense of Obsidian’s Graph View

Obsidian's graph view helps judge maturity of article ideas, source usefulness, & which parts of my workflow are surprisingly valuable.

Here is my very pretty graph.

“Is the graph view useful” is a common question that comes up in the Obsidian community. Some people think that it’s just a gimmick because it’s pretty, and I understand why they think that, but the graph view is actually surprisingly useful for me. Some people actually use it for navigation! I don’t, but I can see how and w…