How to use it
- Open Knowledge → Graph from the sidebar — you land directly on the structure galaxy; the top-left HUD counts active notes (archived folders are excluded by default).
- To include archived notes, turn on Include archived in the HUD — remembered per vault. Active-only and with-archived each keep their own materialized cache.
- First open with no cache yet: you get an honest cold-build message (large vaults may take a minute or two). There is no fake progress percentage.
- Cache exists but vault content changed: the previous view shows immediately while the HUD says “Updating…”. When the background rebuild finishes, the view refreshes and tries to restore where you were.
- Hovering a node lazily loads and lights its one-hop neighborhood; leaving clears it so the overview never pays the cost of every edge at once.
- The audit map still uses its own channel and is not mixed into this galaxy entry.
Semantic retrieval is BYO
Mycel no longer ships an embedding model or vector index: no model downloads, no vector build jobs, and old vector files are cleaned up automatically on upgrade. Keyword search (Tantivy BM25) and the structural galaxy remain the built-in floor. For semantic or vector retrieval, point your own agent or vector tooling at the vault — it is plain Markdown. See the BYO vector search guide.
