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Find your way around the canvas.

The basics to get going, then the small habits of a practised hand. Everything here works on any canvas, right now.

01/The basics

Four gestures, and you know the canvas.

Everything in Nolënor is a node on an infinite canvas. Moving around, adding, opening and connecting is all there is to learn before you start.

  1. 1.

    Move around

    Hold the middle mouse button and drag to pan. Hold Ctrl and scroll to zoom. On a trackpad, two fingers pan.

    Prefer the left button? Pick the hand in the toolbar and drag anywhere. On a tablet or a phone, one finger pans and a pinch zooms.

    Zoom
    Ctrl⌘scroll
    Pan
    middle-click + drag
  2. 2.

    Add a node

    Right-click the canvas and choose what to add. Or skip the menu: point where you want it and tap a single letter. The node lands under your cursor, ready to type in.

    Pasting and dropping work too. An image, a PDF, an audio file, a CSV, a URL or plain text each becomes the right kind of node.

    Title
    T
    Document
    D
    Table
    A
    Image
    I
    Link
    L
    TTitleDDocATableIImageLLink
  3. 3.

    Open and edit

    Double-click a node to open it in a window, with room to read and write. Select a node to reveal its toolbar, then hit the pencil to edit it in place.

    Select several nodes and press Enter: they open side by side, up to four at once.

    Open
    double-click
    Open the selection
    Enter
  4. 4.

    Connect ideas

    Drag from the dot on a node's edge to another node to link them. Double-click a connection to give it a label.

    Right-click a connection to make it thick, dashed or dotted, or to jump to either end. Links are read by Nolë too: they tell it how things relate.

    Label a link
    double-click
    supports

02/Working with Nolë

An agent that works where you do.

Nolë reads and edits the same nodes you do. You decide what it looks at, it shows what it changed, and you can always take it back.

  1. 1.

    Choose what Nolë sees

    Nolë doesn't read your whole canvas by default: you hand it what matters. Type @ in the message box to mention a node, or hold Alt and click a node to attach it.

    Alt-click an empty spot of the canvas to point at a place: “put the summary here” then means exactly there.

    Mention
    @
    Attach
    Alt⌥click
    Market studyInterviewsAlt + clickNolëMarket study@InterInterviews
  2. 2.

    Ask, then keep working

    Ask from the bar at the bottom of any canvas, or press N for the full panel. You don't have to watch: each request runs as its own task, several can run side by side, and the results appear on the canvas as they're made.

    Thought of something mid-answer? Send it anyway. It's added to the running response after the current step, no need to stop and start over.

    Nolë panel
    N
    Dictate
    Ctrl⌃Alt⌥
    DoneWorkingQueuedAsk Nolë anything, @ to mention a node
  3. 3.

    Review what it changed

    Every edit is kept. Open a node and its history lists each version, with Nolë's changes set apart from yours. Read what it did, compare, and restore any earlier version in one click.

    History survives deletion, and the canvas has a trash: nothing you build is one wrong click away from gone.

    Version historyYYou added a tableToday, 16:20NNolë rewrote the introToday, 15:02RestoreYYou edited 3 paragraphsYesterdayNNolë created the documentLast week

03/Pro tips

The habits of a practised hand.

None of these are hidden, but none of them announce themselves either. Pick two, use them for a day, and they'll stick.

  • Snap into line

    Hold Shift while you drag or resize. Edges, centres and gaps snap to the nodes around, with guides drawn as you go.

    Shift⇧

  • Group with frames

    Press F and draw around a set of nodes. The frame moves them together, and Nolë can be pointed at a whole frame.

    F

  • Bookmark your places

    Right-click a node, then Bookmark. Press B to open your bookmarks and jump straight back, however big the canvas gets.

    B

  • Search inside everything

    PDFs, audio and video are transcribed and indexed. Search a sentence you only remember hearing and land on the node.

    Ctrl⌘K

  • Jump between canvases

    The command center finds any canvas by name and takes you there, without going back to the home page.

    Ctrl⌘P

  • Duplicate in one stroke

    Duplicate a selection in place, or copy it and paste it on another canvas. Pasting works with your clipboard too.

    Ctrl⌘D

  • Think out loud

    Press R to record a voice memo straight onto the canvas. It's transcribed, so it's searchable and Nolë can read it.

    R

  • Ask for a tool, not an answer

    “Chart the status column of this table.” Nolë builds an App node wired to your data, and it stays live as the table changes.

  • Hand nodes to other assistants

    Right-click, Copy ID, and paste it into Claude or ChatGPT connected through MCP. They'll find the exact node you mean.

04/Keyboard shortcuts

The whole sheet.

Single letters work when the canvas has focus, never while you're typing in a node. A sentence typed by mistake creates nothing.

Canvas

Pan
middle-click + drag
Zoom
Ctrl⌘scroll
Snap while dragging or resizing
Shift⇧
Undo
Ctrl⌘Z
Redo
Ctrl⌘Shift⇧Z
Duplicate the selection
Ctrl⌘D
Copy and paste nodes
Ctrl⌘CthenCtrl⌘V
Draw a frame
F
Bookmarks
B
Hide the interface
²or`orCtrl⌘\

Create

Title
T
Document
D
Table
A
Image
I
Link
L
Voice memo
R

Open & find

Open the selection
Enter
Search everything
Ctrl⌘K
Command center
Ctrl⌘P
Save the window in front
Ctrl⌘S
Find in the window in front
Ctrl⌘F

Nolë

Open or close the panel
N
Mention a node
@
Attach a node or a spot
Alt⌥click
Dictate (hold)
Ctrl⌃Alt⌥

05/Going further

Make it yours.

A few settings pages worth knowing about once a real project lives on your canvas.

Skills
Teach Nolë a way of working once, with instructions and files. It loads the skill when a task calls for it.
Settings → Skills
Agent memory
What Nolë keeps about you and your work between conversations. Read it, correct it, delete what you'd rather it forgot.
Settings → Agent Memory
Routines
Give Nolë a task to run on its own: every hour, every day, on chosen days, or once at a set time.
Settings → Routines
Custom nodes
Design a node type with exactly the fields you need, a compact look for the canvas and a full one for its window.
Settings → Custom nodes
MCP & API tokens
Open your canvases to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client. Create a token, choose its permission, paste the command.
Settings → MCP & API tokens
Export
Take everything with you, in open formats: Markdown, JSON and CSV. Your thinking stays yours.
Settings → Export my data

Still stuck?

Something unclear, broken, or missing from this page? Tell us on GitHub, we read everything. Or just ask Nolë, from any canvas.

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