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Graph view
Explore how your notes connect with the global and local graph, and tune filters, colours, node sizes and forces.
The graph draws your vault as a map. Every note is a node and every link between notes is a line. It is built from the links that really exist in your files, so it is always an honest picture of your own structure: clusters show topics you keep returning to, hubs show your most connected ideas, and isolated nodes show notes that have not been woven in yet.
Global and local graph
- Open graph view (Ctrl + G) shows the whole vault.
- Open local graph (Ctrl + Shift + G) shows the neighbourhood of the note you are reading. You choose the depth (how many links away) and the direction: both ways, only outgoing links or only backlinks.
The graph opens in a tab like any other, so you can put it beside a note with a split pane and watch it follow your work.
Moving around
- Hover a node to highlight it and the notes it links to; everything else fades.
- Click a node to open that note.
- Drag the background to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom, and use Fit to see everything again.
- On a touchscreen, drag and pinch work the same way.
Labels appear as you zoom in, so a large graph does not turn into a wall of text.
Filters
Narrow the graph so it answers one question at a time:
| Filter | What it does |
|---|---|
| Search | Only show notes that match a search query. |
| Tags and folders | Restrict to a tag or a folder. |
| Attachments | Show or hide images, PDFs and other non-note files. |
| Tags as nodes | Show tags as their own nodes. |
| Orphans | Show or hide notes with no links. |
| Unresolved links | Show or hide links to notes that do not exist yet. |
Groups, sizes and forces
- Colour groups paint nodes that match a query, for example everything tagged
#projectin the accent colour. - Node size can follow the number of backlinks, the total number of links, or stay uniform.
- Forces control the layout: centre pull, repulsion between nodes, link strength and link distance. Your last-used settings are remembered.
Performance
The graph is drawn on a canvas with spatial indexing for hit-testing and label placement, so it stays usable as a vault grows to thousands of notes. If it ever feels busy, filter out orphans and attachments first.
The graph module can be turned off in settings if you do not use it. Your notes and links are unaffected.
See Linking notes to make the graph worth looking at, and Backlinks for the same information as a list.