Explore: A Table and a Map of Your Whole Knowledge Graph

Your History Is a Graph, Not a List

Meetings, notes, people, and companies do not actually live in isolation. The person you met with on Tuesday works at the company you discussed on Thursday, and both connect to a topic that has come up in six different conversations over the past quarter. A flat list of notes hides those connections. Explore is where Grafite makes them visible, both as a table you can scan and sort, and as a map you can actually look at.

Explore has two views: Topics, a table, and Map, a visual layout of your whole account's graph. Both are available to everyone on Grafite, not gated to a higher plan. The table works everywhere, including on a phone. The map needs more room to be useful, so it is available once your screen is wide enough (desktop width, roughly 1024 pixels or more), and narrower screens get the table instead.

The Topics Table

The Topics table lists every topic that has come up across your notes, ranked and searchable. Each row shows how often it has been discussed (with a small activity sparkline), how many people and companies were involved in meetings where it came up, a sentiment reading, and when it was last mentioned. Typing into the search box filters the table by name as you go, so if you only want to see what involves "renewal" or "onboarding," you narrow to it directly.

Click into any topic and you land on a page dedicated to it: how many notes and meetings touched on it, which people were involved, which companies, related subtopics, and other topics it tends to appear alongside. It turns a single word into a real view of everywhere that subject has shown up in your work, across every meeting that mentioned it, not just the ones you happen to remember.

The Map

The Map view is a different way to look at the same underlying graph. Instead of rows and columns, it lays out your notes, people, companies, and topics as a network you can pan around, zoom into, and click through. Related items cluster together visually, so patterns that would take real digging to find in a table (a cluster of companies all connected through one recurring topic, say) become something you can just see.

You can scroll to zoom, drag to pan, and click a node to open the record it represents, whether that is a note, a person, a company, or a topic. There is a time range control so you can look at the last 30 days, 90 days, or full year of activity, and a search box that filters what is highlighted on the map without leaving the view. Double-clicking empty space resets the view if you have panned or zoomed somewhere you want to back out of.

Why the Map Needs a Wide Screen

A network visualization needs room to lay nodes out so labels do not collide and clusters stay legible. On a phone-width screen, that space simply is not there, and forcing a cramped version of it would be worse than not offering it. So the Map is available once your window is desktop width, and the code for it is not even loaded until you are on a screen wide enough to use it. Smaller screens default to the Topics table, which is built to work at any width and covers the same underlying information in a format suited to scanning rather than spatial browsing.

If you use Grafite mostly from your phone, the table is not a downgrade so much as the right shape of the same data for that screen. If you are at a desktop and want the bird's-eye view, the Map is there for that.

Everyone Gets This, Not Just Higher Tiers

Unlike some of Grafite's more advanced features, Explore is not limited to a specific plan. Every account gets the Topics table and, on a wide enough screen, the Map. The reasoning is straightforward: the knowledge graph is built from meetings and notes you are already creating, and the value of seeing your own history connected together should not depend on which plan you are on.

A Graph Only Works If It Is Built From Something Real

Explore is only as useful as the topic extraction and note-taking underneath it. It does not invent connections, it surfaces the ones already present in what you have recorded and written. If you want the mechanics behind how a topic gets identified from a meeting in the first place, how Grafite finds topics covers that directly, and from conversations to a knowledge base covers the broader idea of turning individual meetings into something cumulative.

If the whole concept of a personal knowledge graph is new to you, what is a personal knowledge graph is the place to start before diving into Explore itself.

Using It Day to Day

The table is the better habit for routine use: check it before a call with a company you have not talked to in a while, or search a topic name before a planning meeting to see what has already been said about it, by whom, and when. The map rewards more open-ended exploration, the kind of session where you are not looking for something specific so much as trying to notice what your last quarter of meetings actually adds up to.

Neither view replaces search when you know exactly what you are looking for. What they add is the view search cannot give you on its own: what connects to what, and how much of it there actually is.

See Your Own Graph

Open Explore in the app and switch between Table and Map to see how your own meetings look laid out this way. It gets more useful the more history you have behind it, so if you are new to Grafite, give it a few weeks of real meetings before judging what the graph shows you. Get started if you have not yet.

What Actually Shows Up on the Map

Four kinds of things populate the graph: your notes, the people who appear in them, the companies those people belong to, and the topics extracted from what was discussed. A note connects to the people who attended and the topics that came up in it. A person connects to the company they work for and to every note they appear in. A topic connects to every note that touched on it, and through those notes, to the people and companies involved. None of this is manually tagged. It comes from the same processing that already happens when a meeting is recorded and summarized.

That matters for how honest the map actually is. It is not a mood board or a manually curated org chart, it is a rendering of what your notes actually contain. If a company barely shows up, that is because it barely shows up in your real meeting history, not because someone forgot to add it.

A Practical Example

Say you have been meeting with a prospective client for two months, across a handful of calls with different people on their side. Open that company from the Topics table (through the people connected to a shared topic) or find it directly on the Map, and you can see every person you have talked to there, every topic that has come up across those calls, and how recently. That is a faster way to prep for the next call than scrolling back through calendar history trying to remember who said what.

The same logic works in reverse. If a topic like "pricing" or "renewal" keeps showing up across accounts you would not have grouped together, the Topics table surfaces that pattern directly, sorted by how often it comes up and who was in the room each time.