[New Feature] Option to Lock a Note to “Lock” the Graph Analysis Panel

[FelipeRearden]

Hello @SkepticMystic !!!!

I have an idea based on my current workflow to share with you :)

The idea/FR is simple to explain: I would like to have an option to lock/freeze a note in a way that if I changed my active note, the graph panel WILL NOT change/update to the active note:

• A checkbox on the right side of Refresh Index to toggle this feature;
• A command palette command to be able to do this with a hotkey command.

My Workflow

I’m gonna use the Joe Biden example :)

I want to write a text about Joe Biden. What I do is:

A. I would open my [[Joe Biden]] note (active Note)

B. Start the Research in my Vault: Open Graph Analysis Panel in the Co-Citations Type to find all notes that are related to the [[Joe Biden]] note;

C. Open in a new pane (vertically or horizontally - see #31 ) these related notes found in the Graph Panel [[China]] [[Donald Trump]] [[Barack Obama]]

D. Navigate (read, highlight) in these notes to understand what I found about Joe Biden that is important in this notes

E. Write about Joe Biden in the [[Joe Biden]] Note

Every time that I change my active note from [[Joe Biden]] to [[China]] [[Donald Trump]] or [[Barack Obama]] I lost the graph information about [[Joe Biden]]

My idea is to have a way to lock the graph panel in the [[Joe Biden]] note in a way that I can switch to [[China]] and keep the Joe Biden view :)

• This way I can open [[China]] [[Donald Trump]] [[Barack Obama]] in a new pane horizontally or vertically.

In my specific case I set a specific Workspace using the Workspace core plug-in named “MOC” with a preset configuration for every time that I need to create a note like this:

Then I open the [[Joe Biden]] note + lock [[Joe Biden]] and start to open the notes found in the graph view into to a screen like this:

If I need to expand my research to [[Donald Trump]] I can hot the command key to unlock the graph panel and view the relations to the [[Donald Trump]] note :)

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Sorry for the long text :) thanks for reading this!

I wait for your comments to create (or not create) an FR about this discussion!

Have a great day!

[SkepticMystic]

@FelipeRearden thank you for the FR, we both really like this idea 😄
And so, it has been implemented in 0.10.0! Please let us know if it is working as expected for you.
There is now a button to toggle Frozen mode, which will enable the behaviour you describe:

[FelipeRearden]

AMAZING !!!!! Thank very much @SkepticMystic and @HEmile !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The icons for frozen and unfrozen are spectacular :)

I'm testing and it's working perfect on version 0.10.0 in Obsidian 0.12.19

• I have on tiny comment about switching between types that I will explain in FR: Option to save Frozen state on per-type-basis #35 :)

Thank you very much for making this happen. I'm so happy :)