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🗂️ Items in Category

The Items in Category menu is an indispensable filtering and navigation tool, especially as your knowledge base grows and becomes more complex. It allows you to organize large amounts of data thematically and display all nodes (items) that you have assigned to a specific group as a clear list.

🔽 Select Category

At the very top of the menu window, you will find a drop-down menu that you can use to control the view.

  • Drop-down list: Clicking on it opens all item categories that you have ever created in your current database (e.g., "People", "Ideas", "Books", "Companies"). Select a category to immediately list all associated items below.
  • Items without Category: This is the default setting. Select this entry to list all nodes to which you have not yet assigned a specific category.
  • Empty Categories: If you select a category to which no nodes are currently assigned, the message "There are no items in the selected category" appears.

🎯 Diagram Navigation (Centering)

The list does not only serve as a pure overview, but is a powerful tool to navigate through gigantic 3D networks at lightning speed.

  • Make root item: Click on any item in the list. The program immediately jumps to this node in the 3D space, centers it in the middle of your screen, and makes it the new starting point (root item) for the displayed diagram.
    • Practical example: If you click on the year "1863" in the list, this item is centered and you immediately see all "People" items connected to this birth year in the diagram.

💡 Pro Tip: Draw relations via drag-and-drop

This menu offers a fantastic, time-saving automation to quickly integrate existing items from the list into new diagram branches:

Quick Linking: You can drag items directly from the sidebar into the 3D diagram! Click on an item in the list, click and hold the mouse button (or your finger), and drag the item via drag-and-drop to any target item in your visible diagram. The system then automatically creates a new relation line between the two nodes. This is particularly useful when evaluating collections or quickly linking existing nodes to new ideas.