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⇄ Navigate in Diagram

The Navigate in Diagram menu helps you find your way through large knowledge networks. While exploring a mind map you constantly change your focus by making different nodes the new center (root item).

This menu records your path. Here you can trace your navigation steps and quickly return to previous points.

🎯 Changing the Root Item (Centering on Nodes)

In large mind maps, the view is always organized around the currently active root item. There are several ways to transition to a new root item:

  • Double-click the anchor circle: Double-clicking the small anchor circle beneath any node immediately smoothly centers that item as the new root of the diagram.
  • Keyboard Shortcut (Ctrl+G / Cmd+G): Select any item and press the shortcut to make it the new root item. Press Backspace to navigate back to the previous root item.
  • Quick Search in the Top Bar: Type a term into the search field at the top right and press Enter to jump straight to that node.
  • Sidebar Panels: Clicking an item in Search Items or Items in Category immediately centers that item.
  • Internal Hyperlinks (itemid://): Clicking an internal link in a text note loads the target node as the new root item.

⬅️ Browse (Chronological History)

The app remembers in the background in strictly chronological order which nodes you have centered one after the other, similar to the browser history when surfing the internet.

  • Browse Back: Jumps exactly the path you took when clicking through the diagram, step by step backwards. This is extremely helpful if you have "gotten lost" in the depths of a large network and want to return to your logical starting point.
  • Browse Forward: If you have used the Browse Back function, you can use this button to travel the path in the opposite direction (forward) again.

🕒 Last Viewed (Quick Access)

While "Browse" lets you repeat every step strictly chronologically, this section is for large, direct jumps.

  • Last Viewed (Drop-down list): Clicking on this field opens a drop-down menu with a list of the items you have viewed as root items in your current session. Simply select an entry here (e.g., a main chapter) to immediately jump back to this node without tedious clicking back and make it the new center of your view.