/obsidian-tagcloud

Show a cloud of your tags/words/links in a note

Primary LanguageTypeScriptGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

Tag, Word & Link Cloud

Plugin for Obsidian

GitHub package.json version GitHub manifest.json dynamic (path) GitHub libera manifesto

With this plugin you can create a tag, link or word cloud in your notes.

To do this create a codeblock with the language set to either tagcloud, wordcloud or linkcloud.

You can configure your cloud using a YAML syntax.

Tag Cloud

Displays all tags that fit your selection.

Examples

Show all tags in the entire vault

```tagcloud
```

Show all tags in the current file

```tagcloud
source: file
```

Show all tags from a folder/file.

⚠️ Requires Dataview

```tagcloud
source: query
query: Folder/File
```

Show all tags that show up together with our tag.

⚠️ Requires Dataview

```tagcloud
source: query
query: '#yourTag'
```

Show all tags from notes that link to note.

⚠️ Requires Dataview

```tagcloud
source: query
query: '[[Other note]]'
```

Options

Name Description Possible Values
query Requires Dataview, requires source to be set to query A valid Dataview Source
exclude exclude certain tags from the tagcloud an array of tags

All other options from here still apply

Word Cloud

a wordcloud displays all words in your vault/note.

⚠ Word distribution will only be calculated when loading a vault and by running the Recalculate Word Distribution command.

This is because the calculation is computationally expensive and takes some time.1

Examples

Show all words in the entire vault

```wordcloud
```

Show all words in the current file

```wordcloud
source: file
```

Show all words using a folder/file

```wordcloud
source: file
query: 'Folder/File'
```

Options

Name Description Possible Values Default
stopwords Remove all stopwords from the result true/ false true

All other options from here still apply

Link Cloud

A link cloud displays all links in your vault.

This cloud can only be generated vault wide.

Examples

Show all links

```linkcloud
```

Show all links to existing files

```linkcloud
type: resolved
```

Show all links to non-existing files

```linkcloud
type: unresolved
```

Options

Name Description Possible Values Default
type Which type of links to show resolved, unresolved, both resolved

The following options also apply.

General Options

The following options are supported for all clouds.

Name Description Possible Values Default
shape What shape to draw circle, cardioid, diamond, square, triangle-forward, triangle, pentagon, star circle
source where are the tags/words coming from? file, vault, query(only supported in tagcloud) vault
weight factor by wich the size of a word is multiplied any positive integer 2
shrinkToFit Adjust word weight to make it fit true/false true
minCount Minumum number of occurances any positive integer 0
maxDepth Only show the X most used elements(if two elements have the same number of occurrences only one will be counted) any positive integer (increasing this number may result in the cloud not showing, as only so many elements can be rendered) 25
background Background color a hexadecimal RGB value background color from the chosen theme
width Width of canvas in pixels (the px is omitted) line width
height Height of canvas in pixels (the px is omitted) width / 2
fontFamily font used to display any valid font-family
fontWeight font weight normal, bold, or a number normal
minFontSize minumum font size any number 0
minRotation the minimum rotation the text should rotate number (in rad) - pi / 2
maxRotation the maximum rotation the text should rotate number (in rad) pi / 2
ellipticity degree of 'flatness' number 0.65
shuffle produce a different looking result each time? true/false true
rotateRatio Rotation Probability Number as percentage (so 1.0 is 100%) 0.1

Known issues

  • In some specific scenario the calculated width off the used canvas element is 0. The plugin will fall back to a value of 500, which depending on the size of your obsidian window, might look strange.

Credits

Footnotes

  1. On a high-powered computer with a Vault that contains ~12.000 this takes 15 minutes.