Tags
A tag is a node’s or relationship’s id written after an @. The note looks it up in the graph as it’s drawn, so what you see is live: rename the node and every note that tags it follows.
Writing one
- Type
@(or/› Tag a node) and a picker opens: On the canvas at first, then Nodes and relationships as you type a name. Return puts the tag in; the note shows the record’s name in place of the id while you write. - Or paste an id: in the inspector, the ID row’s right-click menu has Copy as Note Tag, which copies
@<id>ready to paste. - The cursor steps over a tag’s id rather than into it; Backspace after a tag takes the whole of it.
Only a whole id makes a tag, so an email address or an @name in passing stays text. \@ types an at-sign.
What a tag shows
| Written | Shows |
|---|---|
@<id> in a line of text | a pill with the record’s title |
@<id> on a line of its own | a card: the title and its filled-in properties, a few rows folded; click to open it up in place; the corner button opens the node on the graph |
@<id>:property | just that property’s value (word_by_word finds “Word by word”: spaces, underscores and case don’t matter); a pill in a line, a card on its own |
@<id>->REL or @<id>->Type | the nodes one step out from it along that relationship or to that type; <- for one step in; the name is optional (@<id>-> is every connection out) |
@<id>->Chapter->Verse:translation | several hops, then a property of what’s reached |
A walk that reaches one node shows that node, with a line saying the way (“BG 5.21 → purport”); a walk that reaches several shows a list card, each member clickable. A name that matches nothing exactly matches what starts or contains it.
The picker helps at each stage: after : it offers Property; after -> or <-, Out from it / Into it with the types and relationships available.
Opening
⌘-click a tag while writing, or click the corner button on a card, and the notes close and the node is selected on the canvas (brought in and framed). A relationship tag brings in both its ends.
When it’s wrong
A tag whose id is in no node or relationship reads Nothing with this ID in red. A property the record doesn’t have reads “Title has no colour”.
Ids are UUIDs, which is why the note writes the record’s name in their place while you type and draws a pill when you read: the text in the file is the id, which never changes, so the tag survives any rename.