GUIDE
Short, practical guides to writing, linking, organizing, and finding your notes in Nodes.
Getting started
- [[Welcome to Nodes]] What Nodes is, and how this guide is laid out.
- [[Your first note]] Create a note and find your way around.
- [[Edition]] What Nodes costs, and what the two unlocks hold.
Home
- [[The Home page]] Your library at a glance, one keystroke away.
- [[Reminders & checklists]] Turn checkbox lines into a live to-do list; the agent adds its own suggestions.
- [[Your Garden]] Watch a tree grow as your library does.
- [[Desktop widgets]] Your library, a node to revisit, the graph and your tasks, on the desktop.
Writing
- [[The editor]] Write in plain markdown, your way.
- [[Flow]] A full-screen writing stream, nothing but words.
- [[Linking nodes]] Connect ideas with double-bracket links.
- [[PDFs & images]] Keep source material beside your writing.
Organizing
- [[Tags & tag pages]] Sort your library without folders.
- [[On-device AI]] Private, local help with tags, descriptions, and reminders.
Finding & seeing
- [[Search]] Find anything by word or by meaning.
- [[Graph view]] See your nodes and their connections.
- [[Timeline view]] Watch your thinking unfold over time.
Windows & shortcuts
- [[The sidebar]] Build it from widgets: your actions, recent nodes, a calendar, your tags, and the Explorer.
- [[Tabs]] Browser-style tabs: one per open node or tag page, plus a permanent Home.
- [[Light Windows]] Open loose .md files on their own.
- [[Keyboard shortcuts]] The keys worth knowing, and how to change them.
Settings
- [[Settings]] Appearance, fonts, editing helpers, shortcuts, and the background agent.
Your data
- [[Where your files live]] Plain files, on-device, no lock-in.
- [[Library snapshots]] Daily recovery points, kept on your Mac - and a restore you can undo.
- [[Import & export]] Bring nodes in; take everything out.
Questions
- [[FAQ]] Deleting a node, getting one back, and the other things people ask first.