Graph view
The graph view is a live map of your wiki — every page you can see is a dot, every connection a line. Use it to grasp the shape of a space, find hubs and orphans, and jump around by structure instead of by the tree.
Open it from the sidebar or with g r ([[Keyboard shortcuts]]), or from any page's ⋯ menu → Open in graph to land focused on that page.
Reading the map
- Dots are pages. Bigger = more connected; colour = which space it's in (the legend, bottom-left, lists each space — click one to show/hide it).
- Lines are connections between pages (the lenses below set which kinds show).
- Hover a dot for a card — its location, connection counts (links / backlinks / children), broken-link count, and last edit; click to open the page.
- A red ring marks a page with broken outgoing links (the target was deleted or renamed away).
- Pan by dragging the background, zoom with the scroll wheel, drag a dot to reposition it, and press Fit to frame everything.
Lenses
Toggle these from the top bar to change what the map shows:
| Lens | Shows |
|---|---|
| Links | [[wikilinks]] / references between pages — connections people wrote |
| Hierarchy | parent → child (the page tree) |
| Semantic | meaning-based connections tela computes from content — see below |
| Trust | recolours dots by health: red = disputed, amber = stale/needs review, muted = clean — see [[Trust & provenance]] |
| Recency | fades older pages so recently-edited ones stand out |
| Orphans | only pages with no connections at all — your loose ends |
| Stats | a side panel: most-connected hubs, recently updated, disputed & stale pages, orphan & broken-link counts |
There's also a Highlight box that spotlights pages whose title matches as you type, and a focus mode (opening the graph from a page) that narrows to that page's neighbourhood — press show all to zoom back out.
The Semantic lens
[!TIP] Links and Hierarchy show connections a person drew. Semantic shows connections tela discovers — pages whose content is about the same thing, from the same index behind [[Search & ask your docs]]. It overlays them as soft dashed threads on top of your authored links.
The payoff is in the overlap: a semantic thread with no solid link beneath it is two pages clearly related but never connected — a missing [[wikilink]], or two efforts running in parallel without knowing about each other. Turn the lens on to spot those gaps, then link them if it makes sense.
[!NOTE] The Semantic lens reads the semantic index, so it needs an embedder configured (provided on the managed cloud; self-hosters set
TELA_RAG_EMBED_URL). Without one the toggle just shows nothing extra — the authored graph is unaffected. It's computed on demand from stored vectors, so it never calls a model.
On a single page
Every page also carries a small Connections graph (the Connections card below the content) — the same map scoped to that page's immediate neighbourhood, for the local picture without leaving the page.
Related: [[Search & ask your docs]] · [[The editor & blocks]]