{"id":19,"date":"2026-10-18T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2026-10-18T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T09:13:16","slug":"my-graph-view-in-obsidian-accidentally-looks-like-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/my-graph-view-in-obsidian-accidentally-looks-like-a-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"My Graph View in Obsidian accidentally looks like a heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">As a developer and writer, my morning schedule is pretty much the same every day: I wake up at 5:00 AM, and I&#8217;m sitting in front of my monitor at 5:20 AM, enjoying my first cup of coffee while the radio plays in the background, my 16-year-old dog (Rex) snoring louder than Metallica, and I&#8217;m reading and answering your comments and emails. But today, I noticed something that just made my whole day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coding and maintaining an app like The Novelist is far from easy. You need a place where you can store everything, from your personal notes to bug reports, a roadmap, the feedback you&#8217;re getting, test cases, regression suites, release QA, dependency maps, audit reports, marketing strategies, and so much more that are basically behind-the-scenes stuff. And while there are many ways that you can do that, I personally prefer using Obsidian for this purpose, since its file-first approach is exactly what I need as a one-person show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning, I launched Obsidian to see what was left to code before pushing The Novelist&#8217;s version <code>v0.1.22<\/code> to all users. But before I started, I wanted to catch up with any news that I may have missed, and one of the places that I usually go for that is Reddit. That&#8217;s when I saw a user who posted their own Graph View from their Obsidian vault, and it was filled with tons of stuff &#8211; to be more exact, it looked like a whole galaxy. It quickly drew my attention, and since I never really look at my own Graph View in Obsidian, I went to see what mine looked like for The Novelist&#8217;s vault, which is&#8230; well&#8230; pretty huge by now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s when I saw something that I&#8217;ve never seen before; my vault looks like a heart. Here, take a look for yourself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-scaled.png\"><span class=\"tnb-content-image\" data-tnb-content-image><template><picture data-tnb-picture><source data-tnb-dark-source media=\"(prefers-color-scheme: dark)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-1024x642.png 1024w, 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data-tnb-dark-source media=\"(prefers-color-scheme: dark)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-1536x964.png 1536w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-dark-mode-2048x1285.png 2048w\" sizes=\"100vw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1606\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2560\/1606\" src=\"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-scaled.png\" alt=\"The Novelist in Obsidian's Graph View looks like a heart (light mode)\" class=\"wp-image-23\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-scaled.png 2560w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-768x482.png 768w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-1536x964.png 1536w, https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/The-Novelist-in-Obsidians-Graph-View-looks-like-a-heart-light-mode-2048x1285.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/picture><\/noscript><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Novelist&#8217;s workspace in Obsidian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you&#8217;ve been reading me, either here, on my personal blog, or even through my Medium blog, you already know that I switched my career and closed my company to focus on my ultimate dream of becoming a sci-fi novelist. Because I couldn&#8217;t find a good worldbuilding and writing software that could handle the hundreds of characters, locations, and events I had, and I was done with switching between documents, apps, and sites, I started building my own app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I was unemployed and money was running out, I started writing on Medium in the hopes that I&#8217;d be making at least a few bucks per month. I&#8217;m also living along with my father, so I can focus on building my app without having to worry about rent and reduce my monthly expenses since this is our home. One thing I wasn&#8217;t expecting was the support and love that I&#8217;ve gotten over the past few months. People donating and purchasing the Early Access version of The Novelist, one that&#8217;s not even ready yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The love and support completely changed me. It pushed me to work even harder and made me see that the past two years I&#8217;ve been working on it alone were well worth it. So you can understand how I felt when I saw that my Graph View for this app looked like a heart &#8211; like, has life finally given me a break? Is this life&#8217;s way of telling me that I&#8217;m doing something right? Who knows, but it did make my whole day and brought a smile to my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, yeah, nothing special here, just something that I wanted to share with you all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Graph View inside my Obsidian vault has the shape of a heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenovelistapp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}