The lens

The lens shows one box and the boxes it links to directly, in a small popup next to the pointer. Use it to see what a concept connects to without losing your place in a big graph.

Opening it

• Hold Shift while pointing at a box. While you hold Shift the lens stays put, so you can move the pointer into it.
• Or press 🔍 at the top right (it turns blue), then point at a box, or tap it on a touch screen. The lens stays open while you move across empty graph toward it.

While the lens is open the rest of the graph fades.

What it shows

• The box you pointed at, with a yellow ring.
• Up to 12 neighbours. More collapse into a +N more box.
• Neighbours from the same file in the middle: boxes pointing to it above, boxes it points to below.
• Neighbours from other files on the sides, grouped by file: on the left those that mostly point to it, on the right those it mostly points to.
• Only the field rows that point to the box you are looking at, so each neighbour stays small.

Jumping

Click a box in the lens to center the main graph on it, with a yellow ring around it. The lens closes, unless you still hold Shift, so you can keep hopping from neighbour to neighbour. Each jump is recorded: < takes you back (see Previous and Next).

Closing it

Release Shift, move out of both the graph and the lens, or press 🔍 again.

The lens works on public projects too.