Removing

Three ways, from the quickest to the most careful. All of them delete from the graph, not just the canvas, and all are undoable: Undo brings everything back where it was, pins and positions included.

Delete the selection

Select a node or a line and press Delete, or click Delete node / Delete relationship at the foot of the inspector. A node goes with its relationships. One node or relationship goes without asking (Undo is there); several nodes ask first: “Delete 5 nodes? They and their 12 connections are deleted from your graph, not just hidden. Undo brings them back.”

The removal draft

For anything bigger, gather what to delete first. Open it with File › Remove from the Graph…, the command palette’s Remove from the Graph…, or the edit panel’s By hand › Remove tab (⌘N, then By hand). What’s selected on the canvas when you open it is already in the draft.

The form:

• Find a node by name: type, and matching nodes appear (the match is loose: case, accents and punctuation don’t count); click one, or press Return for the first, to add it to the draft.
• Add the selected node(s): a one-click row when something is selected on the canvas that isn’t in the draft yet.
• Draft: each node (with “+3 connections” when it has relationships, which go with it) and each relationship (from → REL → to). Click an entry to show it on the canvas; × takes it out of the draft; Clear empties the draft.
• The footer sums it up, “Deletes 4 nodes and 9 relationships”, and Delete… asks once more before deleting the whole draft as one undo step.

The draft is kept while the panel is closed, and skips anything deleted from the graph meanwhile. The tab’s label shows how many are gathered: Remove · 4.

Removing with the AI

In the edit panel’s With Claude side, ask: “Remove every Source published before 1950” or “Delete the duplicate Entropy node”. Claude writes a read-only query to find exactly those records, the draft lists what it found with a tick per item, and nothing goes until you click Remove 3 nodes. See Changes and removals.