Topic Graph

Explore how your notes connect through the Connections panel and Topics view.

Two ways to see structure

Valorune gives you two ways to see how your notes relate: the Topics view in the left sidebar, and the Connections panel at the bottom.

They work together. The sidebar shows the hierarchy. The Connections panel shows the graph.

Topics view

At the bottom of the left sidebar, switch from Files to Topics. This replaces your normal file tree with a topic hierarchy that Valorune generated from your content.

Instead of folders you created, you’ll see topics, subtopics, and notes grouped by theme. This is the Virtual File Manager: an auto-organized view of your vault based on what your notes are about, not where you put them.

Click any note to open it. Click any topic to see its graph in the Connections panel.

The Topics view requires the AI backend and a completed index. If it’s grayed out, make sure your notes are indexed.

The Connections panel

The bottom panel (titled “Connections”) shows a visual graph of how notes relate. What it displays depends on what you’ve selected:

When a note is selected, you see a note graph with two sub-views, toggled by a segmented control in the panel header:

  • Links: shows only [[wiki-link]] connections. Every line is a link you created manually. This works without the AI backend.
  • Concepts: shows your note plus related topic nodes from the topic hierarchy. This gives more context about where your note fits thematically.

When a topic is selected (clicked in the Topics sidebar), you see a topic graph: the selected topic with all its subtopics and notes in a hierarchical layout.

When a folder is selected (clicked in the Files sidebar), you see a folder graph: all indexed notes in that folder and their connections.

  • Click a note in the graph to open it in the editor
  • Click a topic to zoom into that cluster
  • Drag to rearrange nodes
  • Scroll to zoom in and out

When it’s useful

The graph becomes more interesting as your vault grows. With 3-4 notes, there isn’t much to see. With 10+ indexed notes, meaningful clusters start to form. With 30+, you’ll see structure you didn’t plan.

If the graph feels empty, make sure your notes are indexed. Unindexed notes don’t appear.

The in-app Topics View tour walks through this the first time you open the Topics tab.

See also: AI Indexing, Discovered Links, Wiki-Links