See and find things in a map

See the shape of a map and find what is in it.

Switch to the graph view#

Press G on a map, or choose Graph in the Canvas / Graph switch at the bottom of the map. The same map is drawn as a network of connections. Nothing you do there moves a block, and the biggest circles are the blocks with the most hanging beneath them. Press G or Esc to go back to the canvas.

The Line thickness menu sets what makes a link thick: Declared strength, Edited together or Close in meaning. See how strong a connection is.

What the graph notices#

The What's in this map panel counts what is there, on a map of up to 1200 blocks: Separate islands (groups with no path between them), the Largest island, Themes (densely linked groups the structure suggests, not named by you), Unconnected blocks, Density and Links per block. An unconnected block is not necessarily a problem; some notes stand alone. Above 1200 blocks the graph view only says the map is too big to read; the canvas still shows everything.

From 150 blocks, a second panel, Where the structure is thin, lists Unlinked pairs: two blocks with several of the same neighbours and no link between them. Open that list and press a pair to light its blocks on the map. It is a proposal, not an action: you decide, and you connect them yourself on the canvas. Below that size, What's in this map says how many blocks are still to go.

To ask about the structure in words, open the chat in the graph view: the Graph analyst answers there (the AI agents).

Find a block by word or by meaning#

On a map, press / and type; the words in titles and in the text of your blocks are matched. Use ↑ ↓ to walk the matches and Enter to jump to one.

On the dashboard, the search field has three modes. by name filters your maps as you type and never leaves your browser. by word finds your exact words inside every map, shows the line where they appear and opens the map at that block. by meaning finds what you wrote about an idea, in every map, even in other words. The last two run when you press Enter.

They answer different questions: by word finds text that contains your phrase, by meaning finds text that is about it. Use by word for a rare exact term or for something you saved a moment ago. Neither spends your AI allowance.

See what you wrote nearby#

Open a block (select it, then click it again or press Enter) and unfold Nearby in its panel. Linked lists what the block is already connected to. Close in meaning shows up to 6 blocks on this map that read alike but are not linked; press Link to connect one. On other maps shows up to 4 blocks from your other maps, each with Open map: the reminder that you wrote about this elsewhere.