Documentation
What every part of Nodum is for
Each page here answers the same three questions about one thing — a button, a panel, a shortcut: what it is, when you would use it, and what it looks like — with a screenshot taken from the real app. New here? Start with Getting started, or take the tour from the ? in the app's ribbon.
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Notes
Links & graph
- Links and backlinksWikilinks connect notes; backlinks show who links to the note you are reading; unresolved links create notes when clicked.
- Graph viewThe whole vault as a picture — notes as dots, links as lines — with filters, forces, colour groups, search, time travel and a local graph per note.
- TagsTags label notes across folders; the Tags panel counts them; nested tags make hierarchies; tag queries colour the graph.
Finding things
Workspace
- Tabs, panes and navigationTabs hold notes, the graph and canvases; panes split the window; back and forward walk your trail; pinned tabs stay put.
- VaultsA vault is a whole separate workspace — its own notes, folders, tags and graph. Switch, create, rename and delete them; each opens in its own browser tab.
Organising
- CanvasA free-form board of cards you place and connect — for thinking out loud, planning, or laying out an argument.
- Daily notes and templatesOne note per day, created on demand from a template; templates for anything you write more than once.
- BookmarksPin the notes you come back to — the bookmarks tab keeps them one click away.
- Import and exportBring in a folder of markdown, an Obsidian vault or a zip; take the whole vault out as a zip of markdown files at any time.
Sharing
- Publishing and sharingShare one note by link, or publish a vault as a browsable site.
- CollaborationLive editing with other people in the same note — cursors, presence, and changes that merge as they happen.
- Community & forumA built-in forum at /forum — announcements, help, bug reports, feature requests and showcases — and a community hub at /community that maps it all.
Extending
- Web clipperSave a page from your browser straight into a vault as a note, with the source recorded.
- PluginsSmall scripts that add commands and notices, run in a sandbox with only the permissions they ask for.
- AI chatChat with your own AI provider about your vault — it can search, read, create and extend notes. Your key, your account, your cost.
- MCP — use Nodum from any AI clientNodum is an MCP server. Point Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor at it with a token and the AI can do what you can — notes, links, search, import, export.
Developers
- API — connect your own appsCreate an API key and drive your vaults from any language over plain REST — list, search, read, write, link, unlink, tag, graph, even ask the AI.
- API guide: notes and filesEvery notes and attachments endpoint with a copy-paste request and a real response — create, read, edit safely, move, tag, upload, delete.
- API guide: search, links & graphFull-text search with operators, fuzzy title matching, linking and unlinking notes, backlinks, tags and the knowledge graph — each with a working request.
- API recipesSmall working programs on top of the API — a shell capture alias, a Python daily-digest bot, a JavaScript backlink janitor — ready to paste and adapt.
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