AI Indexing

How indexing works and when to run it.

What indexing does

When you index a note, Valorune analyzes its content, extracts topics and relationships, and adds it to your knowledge graph. This is what powers discovered links and the topic graph.

Notes that haven’t been indexed won’t appear in the graph and won’t generate discovered links.

Index vs. Index All

Index: processes the current note. Use this after editing a single note.
Index All: processes every note in your vault. Use this when you first set up, or after adding several notes at once.

Both are available in the Graph panel in the sidebar (open it with Cmd/Ctrl+2).

How long it takes

A single note takes about 20-30 seconds on average, though this varies depending on the note’s content. Batching notes with “Index All” is significantly faster per note than indexing them one by one.

Subsequent indexing is also faster because only new or changed content gets processed.

You can keep writing while indexing runs in the background.

When to index

There’s no automatic indexing yet. Run it:

After writing new notes
After making significant edits to existing notes
When you want to refresh your discovered links and topic graph

You don’t need to index after every edit. A good rhythm is to write freely, then index when you want to see how things connect.

Credits

Indexing uses AI credits. During beta, credits are free. Don’t worry about it.

The in-app AI Indexing tour walks through this the first time you click Index.