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Tips

O and P show and hide the left and right panels.
Alt+drag from one node onto another connects them.
2 and 3 switch between the flat plane and full 3D.
T hides every label at once, for when someone is reading over your shoulder.
G shows and hides the grid.
Shift+Enter puts a subtitle line under a node’s title.
Escape gets you out of almost any mode.
Pop out a node’s notes into their own window and move them to a second screen.
Bridges join two spaces, and never count against the free plan’s node limit.
Ctrl+Alt+1 to 3 set headings while you are writing in the notepad.

Getting started

About & Welcome This is where we write things about Filamental. Forget, Remove or Delete a Project A project is a folder on your computer, and Filamental keeps a bookmark to it in the Projects window (see Graph). Getting rid of one can mean three quite… Languages Filamental's interface currently ships in 8 languages: New, Open or Import Every way to begin lives behind one button, New / Open / Import…. You'll find it in the Projects window (click your project's name, top left) and on the screen… Obsidian Plugin It's a view, not a workspace. The plugin reads what's already in your vault and renders it. It doesn't create notes, edit properties, or let you build a… Open a Folder as a Project Any folder on your computer can become a Filamental project. Point Filamental at it and every file inside becomes a node you can arrange, connect and write… Report a Bug or Request a Feature Found a problem? The bug button in the top bar opens an email to us. Got an idea? Request a feature, in Settings, sends it our way. A person reads both. Shortcuts The full key/mouse reference. For the "why" behind these, see Graph Navigation. The Welcome Tour The welcome tour is a short walk around Filamental that runs the first time you open it. It points at each part of the screen in turn, says what it's for, and… Undo and Redo Undo is Ctrl+Z and redo is Ctrl+Y (or Ctrl+Shift+Z). The same two arrows sit beside your project's name in the Top Bar. Hover over either one to see the step it… Working with Obsidian Filamental and Obsidian can point at the exact same folder. Open an existing Obsidian vault in Filamental as it is, or open a Filamental project in Obsidian as…

The studios

Publisher Studio: Basics Publisher Studio is where you turn a world into a document you can actually hand to someone: a client proposal, a report, a public page. It's a distinct… Publisher Studio: Page Style Page style is how the whole document looks: the font, the size of the text, how wide the page is, and the colours. Set it once and it applies to every page in… Publisher Studio: Presenting Present puts your structure on the whole screen and turns it slowly, with nothing else on it. It is for the ten minutes before a meeting starts, while people are… Space Studio Space Studio is the working view either side of your graph: a left panel for organising nodes and connectors, and a right panel for writing and configuring the…

The interface

Graph You might call it a project or something else, but it is basically where everything in your world lives. Graph Navigation How to actually move around the canvas. For the full key/mouse reference table, see Shortcuts, this page is the "what it feels like and why" version. Highlighting and Focused Layout Click a classification or a connector type in the left panel and it lights up on the canvas while everything else dims back. Press Dark Energy while something's… Inserting Media There are two places you can write in Filamental: a node's notes in Right Panel (Notepad), and a page in Publisher Studio: Basics. Both take media, but the page… Left Panel This panel is also called "the Lens." It's where you focus, organise, and choose what to display on the graph. Drag things around, right-click for options, click… Pathfinder Pathfinder shows you how two nodes are connected. Pick them and the shortest chain of connectors between them lights up, while everything else on the canvas dims… Properties Notes are for what you'd tell someone. Properties are for what you'd put in a column: an owner, a status, a cost, a renewal date. Anything you'd want to read off… Publisher Studio: Sharing Once your document is built (see Publisher Studio: Basics), click Share at the top right to get it out into the world. The Share window asks one question first,… Right Panel (Notepad) This is your node's notepad and properties space. Write a short note or a full document, and apply different sets of properties to different node… Top Bar Left to right, here's everything that lives up here.

AI

AI Basics: Side-by-Side The simplest way to work with AI and Filamental. No connection, no setup, no plugin, works with any AI chat tool including Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini.… AI on Your Own Computer Filamental AI can run on a model on your own computer, through Ollama or LM Studio, instead of a hosted provider. There's no key, no account and no bill, and… Build a Project from a Folder of Documents You have a folder of documents: contracts, reports, meeting notes, research, a client's whole file. Your AI can read them and build a Filamental project from… Explore a Folder or Document with AI Point Filamental at a folder of documents, or at a single document, and the AI you've connected reads it and builds a project from what it finds. Every person,… Export for AI Export for AI saves your whole project as one Markdown file that any AI can read. Attach it to a conversation in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or anything else that… AI Connections & Prompting There are five ways to work with AI in Filamental, and they divide cleanly in two before anything else about them matters.

Account

Account & Billing Settings (hamburger icon, top right) is a single draggable panel split into nine categories:

What we tell your AI

What We Tell Your AI We are completely transparent about our instructions. The skill file Filamental is a local-first knowledge graph application. Each project is a folder on the user's computer containing Markdown node files and a .filamental/ config… The file format reference Complete reference for reading and writing Filamental node files. Load this when generating or validating node files, not for general analysis questions.

Video

Some things are easier to watch than to read

A page can tell you that a connector carries direction and weight. Watching one get dragged into place tells you what that actually feels like, in about eight seconds.

Our YouTube channel is where the moving version of this documentation lives, and the list of tutorials is growing. Short and specific: how to lay a space out, what each of the two studios is for, how to hand a finished structure to somebody who has never opened Filamental. No preamble, and no ten minute introduction in front of the useful part.

Two lists are worth knowing about. Help & How-to is the short specific end, and it is the one that keeps growing. Gallery is the longer end: product demonstrations, and the films that run on this site, kept together in one place.

It is free to watch and you do not need an account to do it.

Playlist Help & How-to The short, specific end, and the one that keeps growing. Playlist Gallery Product demonstrations, and the films that run on this site. YouTube The channel Every video we publish, in one place.

Want a tutorial on something in particular? Email support@filamental.space and say what you are stuck on. Requests shape what gets made next.