Graph

The graph view turns your workspace into an interactive map of ideas. Every note becomes a node, and the links between them become visible connections—giving you a bird's-eye view of how your thoughts relate to each other.

The Basics

Think of the graph as a constellation of your workspace. Nodes can represent:

• Regular notes
• Daily and weekly notes
• Inbox entries
• Tags used by notes
• Property fields found in note frontmatter

Lines show wikilinks, tag membership, and property relationships. Each node type is visually distinct so you can tell them apart at a glance.

What makes it interactive is the physics simulation running behind the scenes. Connected notes naturally cluster together, and you can drag nodes around to reorganize things however you like (though it won't save your layout—it's just for exploring during that session).

Navigating the Graph

Using the graph is intuitive. Click any node to open that note in a new tab. Hover over a node to see its title and watch its immediate connections light up. You can zoom in to focus on a specific cluster of related notes, or zoom out to see your entire knowledge network at once.

The graph uses force-directed layout algorithms to position everything automatically. Notes that reference each other pull closer together, while unrelated notes drift apart. It's like watching your ideas organize themselves.

Use the colored node-type buttons in the graph header to show or hide regular notes, Daily and weekly notes, Inbox entries, tags, and properties. Octarine remembers these visibility choices for the workspace.

Searching the Graph

Need to find a specific note or connection quickly? Use the graph search feature by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the top right or pressing Cmd/Ctrl + F.

When you search, matching notes are highlighted and zoomed into view while other nodes dim into the background. If your search finds exactly one match, the graph will zoom in maximally on that note, making it easy to see its immediate connections and context.

Understanding Connections

The graph reveals relationships you might not notice otherwise:

Solid lines connect notes that link to each other directly through [[internal links]]. Notes that share common tags cluster around those tags, showing thematic relationships. And isolated nodes—those lonely dots floating by themselves—are orphan notes that haven't been linked to anything yet. They're a good reminder of content that might need connecting.

The more two notes reference each other, the stronger their visual connection tends to be. It's a simple but powerful way to see which ideas are most tightly woven together in your workspace.

Graph Options

Click the adjustments icon in the graph header to tune the visualization. Settings are stored per workspace.

Forces

• Repel force — controls how strongly nodes push away from one another
• Link distance — changes the preferred distance between connected nodes
• Link strength — controls how tightly links pull connected nodes together
• Center force — changes how strongly the graph gathers around its center

Display

• Node size — scales every node
• Link opacity — makes connection lines more or less prominent
• Link thickness — changes the width of connection lines
• Label zoom threshold — controls how far you must zoom before labels appear

Filters

• Hide orphan nodes — removes nodes without any visible connections
• Min connections — only shows nodes that meet the selected connection count

Choose Reset to defaults to restore the original graph behavior.

Graphs Inside Views

A saved View can visualize its current result set as a graph. View graphs use the view's filtered notes and can create property-value hubs from the visible data. This is separate from the workspace Graph, which maps the entire workspace.

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