Welcome to Smart Connections

Notes everywhere. Progress nowhere?

• Useful ideas hide behind folders, titles, and old wording
• Manual linking and rereading steals writing time

Start from the note in front of you

• Open a project, meeting, draft, research, or decision note
• The note in view becomes the anchor
• No query or prior links required

Create your first related link

• Preview one promising result
• Drag it into the note to create a link
• Keep only the relationship that helps the work

You know it worked when...

• A related note changes what you write next
• The current note gains an insight, source, decision, or link
• Progress in the note is the value

Weak results? Use a richer note

• Empty or tiny notes provide weak anchors
• Open a note with project, research, meeting, or decision text
• Try Connections again

Let preparation finish

• Smart Environment prepares eligible notes for local retrieval
• No API key is needed for Core retrieval
• Readiness depends on vault size and device

Still empty? Inspect the note

• Use the Smart Environment status menu
• Run: Inspect active note
• Check that should embed and vectorized are green

Check vault coverage

• Run: Show stats
• Embedding coverage should be greater than zero
• Use Milestones when preparation is still running

Watch related notes appear

• See a note become a stronger anchor as it gains meaning
• Notice how related notes change without a search query

Make it routine

• Leave Connections open beside your notes
• When the note makes you search, preview one result
• Apply one useful result before moving on

Need daily list controls?

• Pause one anchor while browsing
• Copy a clean list of links
• Hide noise or pin references

Full notes or precise excerpts?

• Sources return whole notes for overview
• Blocks return smaller sections for precision
• Start broad, switch when the useful part is buried

Useful but noisy?

• Lower result limit for clarity
• Move the sidebar where it fits your layout
• Tune after one useful result, not before

Finish notes with related links

• Footer connections appear at the end of the note
• Useful on mobile and no-sidebar layouts
• Review related notes before leaving the page

Starting from a question?

• Ask in plain language
• Search by meaning, not exact keywords
• Use Lookup when the query is the anchor

Need relevance in a table?

• Add a Connections score column to a Base
• Compare rows against a reference note
• Sort planning, research, or triage by relevance

Want link trails per row?

• Use list_connections in a Bases column
• See related links beside each row
• Build review dashboards without leaving Bases

Recurring result problem?

• Fix scope first
• Then tune scoring or ranking
• Change one layer at a time

Need the shape of a topic?

• Use a graph when a list feels too flat
• Look for clusters, bridges, and neighborhoods
• Act on selected notes after the shape is useful

Turning matches into AI context?

• Use Connections to find strong candidates
• Review what belongs before packaging
• Send selected material when the next step needs AI

Still blocked?

• Check the FAQ before changing everything
• Use the page that matches your symptom
• Then return to one meaningful note

Get one useful related note today

• Open a meaningful note
• Open Connections
• Preview and apply one result

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