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Slight differences from Obsidian app behaviour

Graph

These are some differences in how the NetworkX graph in this package appears versus the graph in the Obsidian app, which I don't want to change as I think these differences are more intuitive for graph analysis:

• The graph will include 'self loops', but the Obsidian app does not show these. For example, if note foo has a wikilink [[foo#bar]], then the graph will show a foo->foo link, but the Obsidian app would not show a 'self loop'.
• The package will show foo in backlinks_index / wikilinks_index keys, as 'note names', if both these conditions hold: i) foo file doesn't exist yet; ii) the only wikilinks in the vault to the note are via a header (e.g. [[foo#bar]]). In the Obsidian app, the graph will have the non-existent note labelled as foo#bar, but I think it's more intuitive to think of all the MD files in the graph as a notes, rather than having notes and note sections as graph node labels.

The graph won't reflect the Obsidian app's graph if you use relative paths to notes in your wikilinks like [[.foo]] & [[..bar]]. That's a bit too complex for the package to cover. The package tries to capture behaviour of the 'Shortest path when possible' setting for new links.