The notes graph

The graph is a visualization of the network formed by your notes: each note becomes a point (node) and each link between notes becomes a line connecting two points. Instead of reading a list, you see from above how ideas connect — which notes are central, which are isolated, and what paths exist between one topic and another.

What it's for

The graph turns the links you created between notes into a visual map. It's the best way to discover relationships that don't jump out when reading note by note: clusters of ideas that talk to each other, heavily referenced notes that act as hubs of a theme, and loose notes that might deserve to be connected to something.

The more you link one note to another while writing, the richer and more useful the graph becomes. It doesn't invent connections: it only draws the links that already exist.

How to open it

In the Notes sidebar, choose the "Graph" view. The central area shows the drawn network, and the status bar summarizes the visible set (for example "128 notes · 342 connections"). If a notebook is selected, the graph shows only that notebook's notes.

How to read what appears

Node (point): Each point is a note. The more links a note has, the bigger its point — hubs stand out in the middle of their clusters.
Line: Each line is a link between two notes. A tangle of lines between a few points indicates a set of strongly related ideas.
Loose notes: Notes with no links appear smaller and fainter — good candidates to receive a link. Their labels only appear at higher zoom.
Colors: With "Color by notebook" on, each note inherits its notebook's color. The Analysis panel can also color by detected theme.
Tags: With "Show tags as nodes" on, each tag becomes a node connected to the notes that carry it.

Navigating the graph

The graph is interactive: zoom, pan, and rearrange it freely — you can even drag individual nodes.

Zoom in and out (labels appear as you zoom in)Mouse wheel

Pan the graph to see other regionsDrag the background

Reposition the note; the layout re-settles around itDrag a node

Preview-highlight that note's direct connectionsHover a node

Pin the selection: connections stay highlighted and a chip with the note's title appearsClick a node

Open the corresponding note in the editorDouble-click a node

Clear the pinned selectionClick the background

One click pins the highlight and shows a chip with the title, the "Double-click to open" hint and an "Open" button — handy on touch screens, where double-tap is unreliable. The "Recenter" button reframes the whole network.

Scope modes

In large collections, showing everything at once becomes a tangle that's hard to read — and slow. The "Show nodes" control in the graph settings offers four scopes:

Local: Only the neighborhood of the current note. A "Depth" control chooses between direct neighbors (1) or neighbors of neighbors (2), and clicking another note re-centers the neighborhood on it.
Connected: Only notes with at least one link — the cleanest view of the actual network.
Limited: The default: every connected note plus a sample of the loose ones (up to 400). Fast to load and still shows the whole connected graph.
All: Everything, including all loose notes. Above a few thousand notes a "Large graph" warning appears — confirm with "Render anyway" or switch to "Connected".

When some notes are hidden by the scope, a badge shows how many are visible (for example "820 of 2,140 notes"). Filters by notebook and tags narrow the set further.

The "Untangle" button

As you navigate or change the scope, lines can end up crossing too much and cluttering the view. The "Untangle" button in the top bar shakes the layout through the physics simulation — spreading and regrouping the nodes — to reduce line crossings and reorganize the network in a cleaner way.

1Open the graph in the view you want to tidy up.
2Trigger "Untangle" and wait while "Untangling…" runs — the movement is continuous, no jumps.
3When it settles, clusters tend to be more separated; a badge reports the number of remaining crossings.

Untangle only changes how the graph is drawn at that moment; it doesn't alter your notes or the links between them.

Adjusting the look: Configure

The "Configure" button opens the "Configure graph" drawer, where the scope above lives together with:

Filters: Restrict the graph to specific notebooks and/or tags.
Repulsion and Link distance: How strongly nodes push each other apart and how long the lines try to be — together they open up or compact the network.
Node size: A multiplier over all node sizes.
Group separation: How much independent clusters keep away from each other.
Color by notebook / Show labels / Show tags as nodes: Visual toggles described above. "Restore defaults" brings everything back to the initial values.

The Analysis panel

The "Analysis" button opens the "Graph analysis" drawer, with four tabs that read the network for you:

Health: Percentage of connected notes, number of islands, average links per note, and the list of orphans (notes with no links).
Centrality: The hubs (most connected notes) and the bridges that hold different regions of the network together.
Themes: Automatically detected communities of notes, with the option to color the graph by theme.
Suggestions: Pairs of notes that look related but aren't linked yet — candidates for a new connection.

Important limits

Notes locked by the vault don't appear in the graph — their content is encrypted, so they neither send nor receive links until unlocked.

In very large collections, the graph prioritizes performance: the default scope limits how many loose notes are drawn, and the "All" mode warns before rendering everything. Use the scope modes and filters to focus on the part of the network that matters.