The graph
The Graph draws your notes as dots and the links between them as lines. Click a dot to open that note.
Two ways to look
Section titled “Two ways to look”Vault shows everything. This is the impressive one and the less useful one — past a few hundred notes it becomes a dense cloud that tells you little beyond “yes, things are connected”.
File shows one note and its immediate neighbors, labeled. This is the one worth using. Open a note, switch to File, and you can see at a glance what it draws on and what draws on it.
What it’s actually for
Section titled “What it’s actually for”Not decoration, though it is decorative. Three real uses:
- Finding the orphans. Notes with no links are usually notes you’ll never find again. The graph makes them obvious.
- Spotting the hubs. A note with a lot of connections is usually an important one — often one you didn’t plan.
- Wandering. Sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for, and following links visually turns up things search wouldn’t, because you didn’t know the word to search for.
Filtering
Section titled “Filtering”You can narrow what’s drawn — by tag, by folder, by how many links a note has. Hiding everything with fewer than two connections is a quick way to see the actual structure rather than the fringe.
Display
Section titled “Display”Adjust dot size, link thickness, labels, and how hard the layout pushes things apart. Worth a minute of fiddling: the default suits a medium vault, and a very large or very small one reads better with a nudge.
Performance
Section titled “Performance”The layout runs separately from the interface, so a few thousand notes stay draggable instead of freezing the window while it thinks.