Constella for Obsidian

Explore Obsidian as an interactive, local-first knowledge graph with cinematic visuals, auto-travel journeys, templates, playlists, fullscreen display, and PNG export.

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Constellation graph with Aqua Mint colors and the Quick Bar

See Your Vault Differently

Real screenshots of Constella. Some show an earlier settings layout; controls may differ in the latest release.

Deep Space graph with Cyberpunk colors and background controls — Deep Space / Cyberpunk: colorful connections with configurable background effects.

Circuit Board graph with Rainbow Flow colors and quick controls — Circuit Board / Rainbow Flow: angular connections and a multicolor graph.

Clean graph with Constellation White colors and graph controls — Clean / Constellation White: a restrained star-like graph with soft highlights.

What It Does

Interactive graph

Turn notes into nodes, links into edges, and explore your vault with hover, search, pin, hide, expand, and path preview controls.

Visual system

Switch between visual styles, color schemes, camera motion, drawing-line animations, node icons, cluster halos, and depth layers.

Local-first privacy

Constella reads Obsidian metadata locally. It does not upload notes, use analytics, call external APIs, or edit note content.

Journeys

Auto-travel through recent notes, forgotten notes, hubs, clusters, orphan notes, writing paths, daily reflection, and deep archive views.

Presentation tools

Open fullscreen, launch a pop-out display window for another screen, and export the current graph as a PNG screenshot.

Graph tools

Use the mini-map, search results list, graph health panel, saved views, tag/folder color rules, legend, and FPS indicator.

Install

Community plugin install

Open Obsidian.
Go to Settings, then Community plugins.
Turn off Restricted mode if Obsidian asks.
Click Browse and search for Constella.
Click Install, then Enable.
Run Constella: Open from the Command Palette.

Manual release install

Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
Create Your Vault/.obsidian/plugins/constella/.
Copy the three files into that folder.
Restart Obsidian or reload plugins.
Enable Constella in Community plugins.

Your Vault/
  .obsidian/
    plugins/
      constella/
        main.js
        manifest.json
        styles.css

Platform Paths

Mac

Press Command + Shift + . in Finder to show hidden folders, then open .obsidian/plugins/constella inside your vault.

Windows

Enable Hidden items in File Explorer, then open .obsidian\plugins\constella inside your vault.

Linux

Press Ctrl + H in your file manager to show hidden folders, then open .obsidian/plugins/constella inside your vault.

Marketplace Ready

Release assets

Each release ships the three files Obsidian needs: main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css.

Privacy

Constella is local-first and read-only. It uses vault metadata for graph rendering and does not send vault data anywhere.

Review notes

Vault enumeration is expected because a graph plugin must discover Markdown files and resolved links locally.

Visual Styles

Constellation Timeline Map Mind Palace Circuit Minimal Archive Fog Focus Lens Thread Weaver Research Board Signal Radar Matrix Hacker Star Map Aqua Mint