Displays a custom local graph of the current note directly at the bottom of the note content.
Utilizes the unused space at the bottom of your notes!
Obsidian's local graph lives in a side panel — you have to open it, resize it, and look away from what you are reading. Inline Local Graph puts the same information where your eyes already are: at the end of the note, in the space that is usually blank.
It is especially handy for notes that are short but heavily interlinked — vocabulary cards, glossaries, daily notes, MOCs — where the links are the content.
The screenshot above is a vocabulary card for the Japanese word 言語 (gengo, "language"). It links out to its kana reading (げんご), its Korean and English equivalents (언어 / language), the two kanji it is built from (言, 語), and a verb it often appears with (学ぶ).
The whole word family sits right below the card, so reviewing one word pulls its neighbours back into view — no side panel, no context switch.
A custom local graph focused on clarity, displaying links and backlinks without flashy visual effects, making it easy to understand and navigate between notes.
- Outgoing and incoming links — toggle each independently from the control bar or settings
- Node styling — shape, background color, and font size
- Label truncation — with separate limits for alphabet and CJK (Korean/Japanese/Chinese) labels, so wide characters do not stretch nodes
- Node limit — cap how many nodes are displayed to keep dense notes readable
- Image links excluded — embedded images do not clutter the graph
- Localized UI — English, Korean, and Japanese
- Open Settings → Community plugins and make sure Restricted mode is off.
- Click Browse, search for Inline Local Graph.
- Click Install, then Enable.
- Download
main.js,manifest.json, andstyles.cssfrom the latest release. - Copy them into
<your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/inline-local-graph/. - Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.
Simply enable the plugin, and the inline local graph will automatically appear at the bottom of your note.
A small control bar sits above the graph:
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Outgoing | Show or hide links going out of the current note |
| Incoming | Show or hide backlinks pointing at the current note |
| + / − | Zoom the graph in and out |
Click any node to open that note. Mouse-wheel zooming is intentionally disabled so scrolling through a note never gets trapped inside the graph.
Settings live under Settings → Community plugins → Inline Local Graph.
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Show arrows on edges | Toggle arrow display on graph edges. | On |
| Show graph border | Toggle the border around the graph container. | Off |
| Show outgoing links | Toggle whether to display outgoing links in the graph. | On |
| Show incoming links | Toggle whether to display backlinks in the graph. | On |
| Skip image links | Toggle whether to exclude image files from the graph. | On |
| Initial zoom | Set the initial zoom scale for the inline graph. | 1.0 |
| Max displayed nodes | Maximum number of nodes shown, excluding the active note (which is always shown). Outgoing links are prioritized over backlinks. Range 1–200. | 30 |
| Setting | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Node shape | Ellipse, Box, Circle, Dot, or Text only. | Box |
| Node background color | Set the background color of graph nodes. | #888888 |
| Node font size | Set the font size of node labels. | 14 |
| Truncate labels | Shorten long node labels with an ellipsis (...). | On |
| Max label length (alphabet languages) | Maximum characters before truncation for alphabet-based languages. | 20 |
| Max label length (Korean/Japanese/Chinese) | Maximum characters before truncation for non-alphabet languages. | 10 |
This plugin uses the vis-network.js library to render interactive network graphs inside your notes.
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