Graph: See How Ideas Connect

Your knowledge isn't a list — it's a network

When you link notes together in Synap, you're building connections between ideas. The Graph view lets you see those connections visually. Every document in your mind appears as a dot, and every link between notes appears as a line connecting them.

The result is a living map of your knowledge — a bird's-eye view of how everything relates to everything else.

How it works

Open the Graph view and you'll see your entire mind laid out as a network. Dots cluster together naturally based on how densely they're connected. Documents that link to each other frequently appear close together, while isolated notes drift to the edges.

Each dot is colored by zone — you can tell at a glance whether a note belongs to Memory, Focus, or Canvas. This color coding helps you see patterns, like which areas of your knowledge are richly interconnected and which might need more links.

Explore your connections

Click any dot to open that note directly. This makes the Graph a powerful navigation tool — sometimes it's faster to find a document by spotting it visually than by searching for it by name.

Use Focus mode by clicking on a single dot to highlight only its direct connections. Everything else fades into the background, letting you see exactly which notes link to and from the one you selected. This is a great way to explore the neighborhood around any particular idea.

Filter by zone

If the full graph feels too busy, you can toggle zones on and off. Want to see only your Memory notes and how they connect? Turn off Focus and Canvas. Interested in how your creative content references your knowledge base? Show just Memory and Canvas together.

These filters help you simplify the view and focus on the relationships that matter most for what you're working on right now.

Why it matters

The Graph view helps you in ways a traditional file manager can't:

Discover unexpected connections. You might find that a client proposal links to the same research as a blog post you're writing — a connection you wouldn't have noticed in a folder view.

Find related notes you forgot about. Click on a project note and discover meeting notes, decisions, and reference documents you created months ago that are still relevant.

See the big picture. Understand how your knowledge is structured at a high level. Spot gaps where important topics have few connections, or find clusters of richly linked content that represent your areas of deepest expertise.

Navigate visually. Some people think better in maps than in lists. If that's you, the Graph will quickly become one of your favorite features.

A map that grows with you

The more you link your notes together, the more useful the Graph becomes. You don't need to build it all at once — every link you add in your daily work automatically appears in the Graph. Over time, it becomes a rich, visual representation of everything you know and how it all fits together.