Graph view

The graph view draws your vault as a map: each note is a dot, and each link between notes is a line. It is a way to see structure: clusters, hubs, and the notes nothing points to.

The graph opens as its own workspace tab, a peer alongside your note tabs and saved-view tabs. There is exactly one graph tab — opening the graph again reveals the existing one rather than stacking up duplicates. It stays open as a tab while you navigate elsewhere, and is part of your saved workspace, so it comes back when you reopen the vault or switch named workspaces.

Opening the graph

Open it from the Graph button in the bottom bar, from the command palette (Show graph view), or with ⌘⇧G. Any of these opens or reveals the single graph tab.

What’s on it

• Nodes are notes. Folders, tags, and attachments are not nodes; only notes are.
• Edges are resolved links. A line is drawn for each resolved wikilink, pointing from the note that links to the note it links to. An unresolved link (to a note that doesn’t exist yet) draws no edge.

Focusing the view

Filter chips narrow what’s shown:

• All: the whole vault.
• Isolated: only notes with no links in or out (sometimes called orphan notes), so you can find what’s disconnected and wire it in.
• Around this note: just the neighborhood of the note you have open, out to one or two hops (toggle the depth between 1 and 2).
• Tag: a dropdown that narrows the graph to notes carrying a tag, counting nested tags under their parent.

In a very large vault, the graph keeps itself legible by showing guidance around the first couple of thousand notes rather than trying to draw everything at once.

Moving around

How a click behaves depends on the mode. In most modes, clicking a node opens that note in a new tab, so the graph tab stays put and you can keep coming back to it. In “Around this note”, clicking a node instead re-centers the view on it; double-clicking a node opens that note in a new tab. You can drag nodes to tidy the layout; the layout then settles and stays put, and does not re-jumble on its own. When you’ve changed your vault and want the graph to catch up, use Refresh to rebuild it.

Private by design

The graph is computed in memory from your links while the vault is open; it is not written to disk as its own file. (This is separate from the search index, which is a stored, encrypted cache; see Search.)

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