Roam Spatial [[Graph]] Sidebar

• Have you ever opened lots of pages in your sidebar?
  • Was it difficult to keep track of where the pages were?
• Have you ever followed a link rabbit hole?
  • Did you lose track of where you came from? What you were originally trying to do?
• Do you ever feel that some ideas fit into a greater whole, but you can't quite grasp it?
  • Do you want to lay them out visually, and re-arrange them?
• Well now you can, with the Spatial Graph Sidebar extension!
  • First, enable the Spatial Graph Sidebar in [[Roam Toolkit]]
  • Sidebar pages will connect to the page they're opened from For example ...

    - [[[[Graph]] Visualization Libraries]]
    - [[[[Graph]] Layout Algorithms]]
    

  • Basic Functionality

    - **Pan** by using the mouse
    - **Zoom** by scrolling
    - **Drag** around windows
    - Windows **auto-snap** when you edit blocks.
    

    To disable this, set Max Layout Duration to 0

    - `Shift+click` to drag **multiple windows**
    

  • Keyboard Shortcuts (configurable)
    • Pan using Ctrl+Command+Arrow
    • Drag using Ctrl+Shift+h/j/k/l
    • Zoom with Ctrl+-/=
    • Switch focus using Ctrl+h/j/k/l
    • Center the currently focused window with Ctrl+0
    • Fit the whole view with Ctrl+9
  • Save and Restore Previous Mindmaps
    • Save your layout for later with Ctrl+Shift+s
      • This will copy your configuration to the clipboard
      • Paste it into a page like [[Roam Saved Workspace 1]]
    • Now let's refresh the page...
    • Open the layout page in the main panel.
    • Then Restore the layout using Ctrl+Shift+o
  • Caveats
    • When you navigate to a new main page, its window will disappear, along with it's edges.
    • To keep the edges, open the page so it appears in both the main panel and sidebar
    • An anchor icon (⚓️) will appear to indicate that the window is "pinned", and will stay when you navigate to new pages