Getting started
Install
See the README for installation instructions - Clew isn't on the Community Plugins browser yet, so it's a manual install from the latest release for now.
Open the graph
Once the plugin is enabled, either:
- Click the Clew icon in the left ribbon, or
- Run "Open graph view" from the command palette (
Ctrl/Cmd+P).
The graph builds itself from your vault immediately - every note is a node, every link an edge. No configuration is required to get a useful view.
The toolbar
A vertical icon rail sits in the top-right corner of the graph:
| Icon | Opens |
|---|---|
| Layout | The layout picker |
| Reset view | Re-fits the camera to the whole graph |
| Filter | The Filter panel |
| Color & size | The Color & size panel |
| Appearance | The Appearance panel |
Only one of Filter, Color & size, and Appearance is ever open at a time - opening one closes whichever of the other two was open.
Everything else is optional
The rest of this guide covers each panel in turn, but none of it is required - the graph is fully usable the moment you open it. Filters and groups you set up are saved per vault and keep applying the next time you open Obsidian.