Cortex & Chronicle views

Your notes are one body of memory with several projections. The canvas is where you write; the views below are where you see the shape of what you know. All of them read the same locally-computed embeddings — switching views never touches the network.

Cortex

The Cortex renders your canvas as lobed clusters, one lobe per memory type or group. Each note is a neuron with a halo, rim, and nucleus; semantic and manual links curve between them, with traveling pulses along the edges. Click any edge to inspect the two notes it connects — or sever it. Searching inside the Cortex highlights matches and dims everything else.

Reach for the Cortex when you want to ask “what does this canvas know, and how is it connected?”

Brain

The Brain is the analytical counterpart: the same graph in three switchable layouts —

• Clusters — groups gathered spatially, best for an overview.
• Force — physics layout that exposes hubs and outliers, with deterministic seeding so it looks the same every time.
• Connections — emphasizes the link structure itself, with near-parallel edges bundled to stay readable.

Your chosen layout is remembered per canvas. Selecting a node dims the rest of the graph to ~10% so you can trace one neighborhood. Group colors and icons match the canvas exactly.

Chronicle

The Chronicle is your memory on a time axis: a horizontal calendar scroll from 2000 to three years ahead. Each time column splits into colored bands, one per memory type or group present in that period, with individual notes scattered inside their band. Hovering illuminates; the “Now” button re-centers on today.

Two things make it more than a chart:

• Double-click an empty spot in any column to create a note dated to that period — real back-dating, useful for journaling things that already happened.
• Your scroll position is remembered per canvas, so a history-heavy canvas stays where you left it.

Recent

Recent lists everything updated in the last 72 hours, split into ≤24h, 24–48h, and 48–72h sections (empty windows show a greyed 0 rather than vanishing). It’s the “what was I doing?” view when you come back to a canvas after a few days.

Which view, when

Continue with Search — both keyword and meaning-based lookup across everything here.