Everything you can do with the Networker
The Networker gives you one place to write, connect, explore, and refine your information — without forcing it into a rigid structure first. Here’s what’s inside.
Write and take notes
Notebooks. Write pages, and assign subjects to each page. You can use scissors to divide existing pages, and you can glue pages together. When you are done, you have the option of reassembling the pages into a single document. You can also create a web site, with one web page for each of your page.
Attach topics to your pages. To help you retrieve your work later, you can attach topics to your page, automatically or manually. The first line of a page becomes a topic, and you can also include the section headings as topics. Underline a word and the Networker can turn it into a linked topic. Review the topics suggested by natural language processing. You can enable or disable any of these features to fit your needs.
Navigate. Immediately move to other notebook pages or tables that refer to the same topic.
Create, import and connect data tables
Import or create. Import a spreadsheet or a table, or create your own tables. You can use them as you usually would.
Enrich your topics. The Networker will create one topic per cell, and relate all the items on a row together. The table is synchronized with the topics, each time you make a modification in the table, the topics are modified.
Reveal internal connections. Configure how your columns behave. If you do nothing, every column is related to the first column. You may want to refine how the columns relate to each other — by configuring this before importing, or reconfiguring afterwards.
Dynamic updates. When you change the content of a cell, you have the option to automatically update all other cells containing the same data.
Connect everything
Topics. Every topic is displayed in a panel, where you can see and modify its properties.
Connections. Relate topics to each other, either directly or by adding a semantic that explains how they are related. Every relationship is editable — change what it means or where it points, any time. You can add, remove, or edit all relationships in the topics panel.
Taxonomies. Build broader/narrower hierarchies with simple “up” and “down” panels for parent/child relationships.
Multiple names. Give a topic as many names as it needs, pick a preferred one, and add or remove the rest individually.
Kinds of names. Tag names — for example, as acronyms, abbreviations, or surnames — according to your own custom categories. You can then retrieve these names in specialized lists.
Multiple languages. Assign languages to names, which lets you handle multilingual versions of your network.
Disambiguation. When a new name matches an existing one, the Networker flags it and asks for a scope, so you can keep meanings apart.
Merge and Detach. Combine two topics into one (with a preview of each), or split a topic into two and choose which properties go where.
Comments. Add multiple comments to each topic.
Web links. Add multiple web links to each topic.
Graph view. See any topic and its neighbors, one to three levels out, and create, edit, or remove nodes and connections by dragging.
Find and explore
Search and Select. Search for any text, or use autocomplete to jump straight to the topic you mean.
Browse all topics. Browse topics in a list. Select lists by first letter, just like a classic index. See topics ordered by the number of connections, or by the number of mentions in notebooks or tables.
Find topic names that are scoped, are in a given language, or belong to a certain kind (for example, all acronyms).
Relations. Find all topics related by a certain type of relation, and browse the topics that describe the relations.
Table view. Filter and sort by topic and relationship type, and edit a cell once to update every place it appears.
Share and fit into your stack
Export. Save your work as CSV, HTML (per page or one file), XML, JSON, RDF, Property Graph, plain text, Markdown, or Word.
Read-only sharing. Share a password-protected, read-only version that stays in sync with your editable one — with the same graph navigation.
Import. Bring data in through a simple API and import scripts, including custom RDF import that preserves synonyms and hides technical URLs.
Standalone or middleware. Run it on its own, or slot it into your existing tools to curate the output of your systems and AI.
Adjust to your preferences
Settings. Turn features on or off, adjust how dialogs behave, and switch between constrained and unconstrained modes.
Themes. Recolor the whole interface — from near black-and-white minimal to vivid color.
Contextual help. Help is built into the moments you need it, explaining what you can do right where you are.