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As your research grows — more branches, more synthesis nodes, more threads — keeping track of how ideas connect becomes its own challenge. The Concept Map solves this by auto-generating a live, interactive 2D node graph of everything you’ve built. Rather than reading through linear chat logs to find a past idea, you can glance at your entire thought structure at once, visually trace relationships between branches, and jump to any point in your conversation history with a double-click.

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What Is the Concept Map?

The Concept Map is an auto-generated interactive node canvas that mirrors your conversation structure in real time. Every message, branch point, and synthesis node appears as a positioned node on the canvas. Edges connect parent messages to their children, and branch forks are represented as diverging paths — giving you a spatial, visual representation of your thinking that updates as you work. You don’t need to build or arrange it manually. Noesis renders the graph automatically using intelligent layout algorithms that keep complex trees legible even when they grow large.

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Opening and Navigating the Concept Map

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Open the Concept Map

Click the Map icon in the main toolbar (top or side navigation bar, depending on your layout). The canvas opens either as a panel alongside your chat or as a full-screen overlay — you can resize or detach it to suit your workflow.
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Orient yourself on the canvas

Your current position in the conversation is highlighted. The active node is marked distinctly so you always know where you are within the tree. Nodes are arranged top-to-bottom by default, with branches spreading horizontally from their fork points.
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Zoom and pan to explore

Use your scroll wheel (or pinch on trackpad) to zoom in and out. Click and drag on the canvas background to pan across large maps. Zoom all the way out for a bird’s-eye overview, or zoom in to focus on a dense cluster of related nodes.
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Jump to any node

Double-click any node on the canvas to jump directly to that point in your chat history. The chat panel scrolls to that exact message, and if the node is on a different branch, Noesis switches your active branch context automatically.
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Switch between Session and Global maps

Use the Session / Global toggle at the top of the map panel. Session view shows only the current thread; Global view shows all threads and Spaces you have access to, connected into one unified map.

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Auto-Layout for Complex Trees

When your conversation tree becomes deeply nested or has many parallel branches, Noesis’s auto-layout algorithms automatically rearrange nodes to minimize overlaps and maintain visual clarity. You never need to drag nodes into place — the layout recalculates whenever new nodes are added. This is especially useful during long research sessions where dozens of branches might be active.

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Session Map vs. Global Map

The Session Map keeps you focused during active research — it’s clean, fast, and scoped to what you’re working on right now. The Global Map is your long-term knowledge graph. Every thread you’ve ever started, every synthesis you’ve run, and every branch you’ve explored is laid out in one connected canvas. Use it when you need to rediscover past work or find unexpected connections between different research areas.
The Global Map is especially powerful for cross-thread research. If you’ve been exploring a topic across multiple separate sessions — say, competitive analysis across three different product areas — open the Global Map to see all those threads in one view. You can often spot thematic overlaps between threads that aren’t obvious when you’re inside a single session, then use Knowledge Synthesis to merge insights across them.