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Graph History

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• Graph History lets you open your graph exactly as it was at any past moment, all the way back to the day it was created.
• Use it to see how your notes evolved, or to recover something that was deleted by accident.
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Using it

• Open Settings → Graph → Graph History.
• Pick a date and time, anywhere from the graph's creation up to now. Shortcuts like Yesterday get you there quickly.
• Go, and the graph reloads as it was at that moment.
• While you're in the past, the top bar shows "Graph is in history mode". Nothing you do or see there changes your present graph.
• To return to the present, go back to the All Graphs Page and reopen your graph. Your browser's back button works too.

Recovering deleted notes

• Travel to a moment from before the deletion.
• Find the content. Search works in history mode like anywhere else.
• Copy it, come back to the present, and paste it back in.

Good to know

• Graph History is available on hosted graphs. Local graphs don't keep the server-side record it reads from.
• Opening it from settings is for admins, and on shared graphs the History viewable by sharing setting controls who may look at the past.
• History is a view, not an undo. To overwrite your whole graph with an older copy, that's Restore Graph in Settings → Data & Backups, a much blunter tool.