Graph and related content

In short

Graph shows how Objects connect across the whole workspace. Related Content lists a few likely next reads beside one Object. Filters, groups, and layout controls change only how the graph is drawn, never your data.

Which Projects does a Person keep turning up in? Which Books cluster around the same ideas? Lar offers two ways to find out:

• Graph draws Objects and the links and relations between them, so you can explore the whole network.
• Related Content gives a short ranked list of likely next reads beside or below one Object.

Open the full Graph

Choose Graph from the sidebar, Library, floating navigation menu, or command palette. Each node represents an Object, and each line represents a connection in the workspace graph. Select a node to open that Object.

The full Graph starts with its control panel closed so the canvas has more room. Choose Show graph controls to open it.

Drag the canvas to pan. Use the controls at the edge of the canvas to Fit graph to view, Zoom in, or Zoom out.

Node labels appear as you zoom in; the Appearance setting controls how soon. Hovering over or selecting a node always shows its label.

Compact screens

On a compact screen, the full Graph initially appears as a list of up to 100 of the most-connected Objects. Each row shows its Object Type and connection count. Choose Show full graph to load the interactive canvas.

Filter and declutter the Graph

With the graph controls open, the toolbar holds a node search field, then Filter, Groups, and Appearance, each of which opens its own drawer.

Use the search field to keep only nodes whose title contains your text. Then open Filter to:

• Hide dates, removing daily notes and other date Objects;
• exclude chosen Object Types, Mixins, or Facets with the + button (Exclude object types);
• turn on Completed to show finished Tasks, which are hidden by default;
• turn on Simplified to draw plain dots instead of icon tiles;
• under Connections, use + to hide weakly connected nodes step by step, and − to bring them back; and
• turn on Hubs to hide Objects with many links.

These controls change only what is drawn. They never delete Objects or links.

Choose Reset all in the toolbar to restore filters, groups, appearance, and layout together.

Color nodes with groups

Open Groups and choose New group, then pick what to color — for example, every Task, or titles matching some text. Matching nodes take the group’s color in the full Graph. Groups are a visual aid only: they don’t change an Object’s Type, tags, Mixins, or properties. Remove a group to return its nodes to their Type colors.

Adjust appearance and layout

Open Appearance to choose:

• Compact, Cozy, or Spacious, which set node size, link thickness, how readily labels appear as you zoom, and whether edges show direction arrows; and
• a Layout slider from Loose to Tight, which controls how strongly connected nodes pull together and unconnected ones push apart.

If the graph becomes hard to read, choose Reset all, then Fit graph to view.

Explore one Object’s neighbourhood

With an Object open, choose Graph View in the side panel. This focused graph starts with the current Object and its immediate neighbourhood rather than the entire Workspace.

• Select a node to open it and re-center the neighbourhood.
• Choose Show more to include a deeper ring of connections.
• Choose Show less to return toward the immediate neighbourhood.
• Use Graph filters to exclude Types, Mixins, Facets, or dates, show completed Tasks, or hide heavily linked Objects in this focused view.

The side-panel Graph deliberately stays scoped to the current Object. Open the full Graph when you want workspace-wide groups, appearance, and layout controls.

Show Related Content

With an Object open, choose Explore in the side panel, then Related Content. A Type can also be configured to show Related Content automatically below every Object body:

1. Open the Object Type’s settings.
2. Choose Layout.
3. Turn on Show Related Content below the body.

Without semantic search, Lar first looks for other Objects that share tags. If there are no tag matches, it falls back to Objects that link back to the current Object.

When semantic search is enabled, Lar combines three ranked signals:

• shared tags;
• backlinks;
• semantic similarity to the current Object’s title.

The combined semantic view is intentionally short: it shows the closest five results. The current Object and the Tag Objects used for matching are excluded.

Note

“Related” does not create a Relation. It is a computed recommendation. To make a durable, typed connection, add a Relation or a link in the Object body.

Improve connection quality

If Related Content is empty or unhelpful:

• add specific tags to the Object;
• link related Objects with wikilinks or typed Relations;
• use a descriptive title if semantic search is enabled;
• enable and finish semantic indexing in Settings → AI provider → Semantic search if you want meaning-based suggestions.

Objects excluded from AI do not participate in semantic indexing, but they can still appear through ordinary tags and backlinks.

Understand large graphs

The full Graph requests up to 25,000 nodes and draws up to 80,000 edges. If the workspace exceeds a limit, the node and edge count on the canvas adds truncated. Use the Type and Mixin filters, node search, or the Connections control to narrow a dense graph before inspecting individual nodes.

Next: Tasks.