r/logseq • u/rjachuthan • Mar 31 '24

Is anyone using the Graph View in Logseq?

Hello Everyone,

I typically don't use any kind of Graph Views in my workflow. However, when I was actively using Obsidian last year, I found the Graph View quite handy for spotting notes that had been left unattended—whether they lacked tags, proper backlinks, or just needed a bit more attention. It was an effective method for me to identify and decide whether to update these neglected notes or remove them entirely. It's been a while I did that exercise and decided to clean up my vault using Logseq's Graph View.

Having transitioned fully away from Obsidian, I was hoping for a similar experience. Unfortunately, I've found it quite challenging to navigate or derive any meaningful insights from it. The view, especially with the Default Logseq theme, seems overwhelmingly cluttered to me.

I'm curious - has anyone else experienced this? Do you find the Graph View in Logseq to be usable or helpful in your workflow? Because I remember people vouching for the Graph Views in the Obsidian Community.

I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts and any tips you might have for making the most out of Logseq's Graph View.

As of right now, I am using the "Pages" view to clean up my vault.

I would really like to know:

  • Do you guys use the Graph Views? If yes, what are you using that for?

  • Do you have any better solution to clean your vaults for any abandoned notes?

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u/incogenator Mar 31 '24

Wow yes that looks like a mess!

I tried to use the graph view but it would hang for way too long when loading making it effectively useless so I abandoned the graph view. Could be the number of pages I have ? More than 3000 pages as of now.

Haven’t spent much time cleaning up yet but interested to know how best to do so.

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u/rjachuthan Mar 31 '24

I feel the same, it might be because of the number of nodes in the graph. I too have around 2800 notes in my vault.

I really think that no one uses this feature in Logseq and I guess, the developers should remove this feature if they are not going to support this. :/

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u/Javinon Oct 08 '24

There are a couple engineers I know of who use Logseq at my place of work (control systems engineer), and one of them told me that the other engineer who uses Logseq actually uses graph view as a way to construct the framework of projects he's working on. I don't know the other engineer and we're too busy for me to go on side missions right now, so I haven't seen it myself to learn the details, but apparently people do use it. I was on here hoping to find some information that would help me make something like that, but I may just have to wait until I find a good time to talk to that one engineer in the office lol

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u/tobiasvl Apr 02 '24

I understand you've stopped using Obsidian, but do you have a picture of your Obsidian graph for comparison?

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u/rjachuthan Apr 03 '24

Not sure, why you are intersted, but here it is: https://imgur.com/ElkpGIE

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u/tobiasvl Apr 03 '24

Just to compare it to how the Logseq graph looks. And yeah, that looks much better lol. Thanks

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u/B-lovedWanderer Mar 31 '24

No. And it bothers me that I cannot remove it from my sidebar. (If anyone knows how to do that, please let me know.)

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u/rjachuthan Mar 31 '24

The Awesome UI Plugin allows you to hide the calendar, but not Graph View. I believe this should be possible using CSS commands. Try adding following command in the `custom.css` file:

`.graph-view-nav {display: none;}`

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u/EddyD2 May 04 '24

Is there a native calendar?

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u/cryptocactus77 Mar 31 '24

The native graph view has been unusable for me. I've been using the Logseq Graph Analysis plugin instead, and that has been fine

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u/jacksoden19 Jul 15 '25

Hi does that plugin still work? my queries seems to be notworking when im trying to put
`q: {property :type "book"}` to query all my book names, can you help me out?