cortex has stopped

cortex

click

select a node and open the reader

double-click

grow a folder into the graph / collapse it

drag

move a node, or pan the empty canvas

wheel

zoom toward the cursor

/

jump to search

tab

in the search box: file names, or inside files

↑ ↓

in the search box: move through the results

enter

in the search box: go to the highlighted result

enter

open selection in your default editor

i

edit the selected file right here

ctrl s

in the editor: save

n

new note in the selected folder

F2

rename the selection

delete

move the selection to the trash

p

open another folder, or a saved project

ctrl k

everything cortex can do, and every file, by name

shift-click

the chain of links from the selection to there

w

live: watch files light up as they change

h

history: replay this folder through git

T

tours: play one, or record your own

v 1–9

views: save the way you are looking, and come back to it

u

disk: size everything by the space it takes

d

today's note

right-click

everything you can do to a node

r

read selection in the terminal cortex started in

e

expand / collapse the selected folder

f

focus mode — hide everything not connected

c

show / hide the connections list in the reader

o

only this folder — drop everything else from the graph

b

back to the whole map

s

open / close the directory sidebar

t

hide the labels — for screenshots and demos

m

full screen the reader — for PDFs, images, long notes

esc

leave full screen, or close the reader

Terminal editors run in the terminal you launched cortex from, or in a terminal window of their own when it was started from the app menu. Quit the editor and the graph is still there, still live. Closing this window quits cortex.