# Graph History

- 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.