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Views

Save filtered, sorted, grouped views of your nodes — like tables and lists over your graph.

Updated June 3, 20265 min read

A view is a saved lens over the nodes (the individual items) in a space. The graph shows everything as a connected web; a view narrows that down to the slice you care about and lays it out as a table, timeline, calendar, or kanban board.

Each view remembers its own filters, sort order, grouping, and visible columns. That means you can flip between "Open tasks by owner" and "Projects this quarter" without rebuilding anything.

Creating a view

Views live in tabs at the top of the space. To add one:

  1. Click the + in the view tab bar and choose New view.
  2. A blank view opens with its config popover (a small settings panel). Give the view a name.
  3. Set up filters, sort, and columns (covered below). Every change you make is saved to the view automatically.

To reopen a view's config popover later, click its active tab. From there you can rename the view, delete it, or open the Access panel to change who can see it.

Filtering

Filters answer one question: "which nodes belong in this view?" The Filter button (funnel icon) in the toolbar opens the filter set. You can stack as many filters as you need — a node has to satisfy all of them to appear.

There are three kinds:

  • Type — keep only nodes of a chosen type, e.g. only Task or only Person.
  • Attribute — match a value on a property, e.g. Status is Done. You pick the attribute, then a value drawn from what actually exists on your nodes.
  • Connection — keep nodes linked to a specific node or type, e.g. everything connected to a given project. You can narrow this by relationship label, or use Exclude matches to flip it (keep everything not linked).

Each filter has an operator (is, is not, is any of); click it to switch. There is no separate free-text filter — to find a single node by name, use search instead.

Filters also scope other controls. A Type filter, for example, limits which date attributes the timeline offers.

Sorting and grouping

  • Sort (arrows icon) orders rows by one column, ascending or descending. Date columns can be sorted too.
  • Group by (layers icon) splits rows into sections — by type, an attribute, a connection, or a date. When grouping by date, pick how fine the sections are: day, week, month, or year. To flatten the sections back into a single list, choose No grouping.

Columns: visibility and order

Click the eye button to control which properties show. The picker lists the columns currently visible (each one removable) plus an Add property menu, which lists every attribute, outbound connection, and system field your schema offers. The Name column is always shown and can't be hidden.

In a table view, drag a column header to reorder the columns. This same set of columns also drives the fields shown on kanban cards.

Display modes

Switch layout with the mode picker:

ModeWhat it shows
TableRows with sortable columns
TimelineA Gantt-style chart laid out by a date attribute
CalendarA weekly grid placing nodes by date
KanbanColumns built from the view's grouping — by an attribute, connection, parent, or date

Mapping a date for timeline and calendar

The timeline and calendar modes need to know which date positions each node. Click the gear (date mapping) button, available in those two modes. For every node type in the view, you pick the attribute that places it: any date attribute on that type, or the system Created at / Updated at timestamps. Those two timestamps are always available, even for a type that has no date attribute of its own.

Inline and bulk editing

Cells are editable in place: click an attribute value, edit it directly, and the change saves to that node.

To act on many nodes at once, select rows with their checkboxes (or select all). A selection toolbar appears, letting you apply one change — such as setting visibility — across every selected node at once.

Quick-add rows

Each group has an Add row. Type a short description of what you want to add and press Enter. Naumu's agent creates the node for you, and when the group represents a real parent or connection, it links the node so it lands in the right section. Keep typing to add several in a row.

Sharing a view

A view has its own visibility setting, independent of the space. Open the view config popover and click the visibility badge to reach the Access panel, where you choose a level:

LevelWho sees itWho can edit
Invite onlyJust youYou
InternalAll space membersOwner only
Internal (editable)All space membersAnyone with access
OpenEveryone, including guestsOwner only
Open (editable)Everyone, including guestsAnyone with access

Open views also get a shareable link. From the same panel, you can add specific people or AI participants and transfer ownership.

A view never widens access to the underlying data. People only ever see nodes they already have permission to see in the space.

  • Spaces — the workspace a view narrows down.
  • Members & sharing — what Open, Internal, and Restricted mean.
  • Search — find a single node fast when a filtered view is more than you need.
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