Group
Wrap related nodes in a labeled box you can move, tidy and hand to a chat as one piece of context.
Exploratory work sprawls: the sources for one question in one corner, the chats arguing about them in another, a draft somewhere else. A group wraps one of those clusters in a labeled box, so you can move it, tidy it and give it to a chat as a single unit.
Grouping alone doesn't change what any chat sees. A group becomes context only when you connect it.
Create a group
- Select two or more nodes (see Selecting nodes).
- In the toolbar above the selection, click Group selection.
- Click the name field above the group (it reads "Untitled") and type a name.
This is the only way to make a group. Nodes already in a group don't count toward the selection, so groups can't be nested.
Work with a group
- Move: drag the group by its dashed area. Everything inside moves with it.
- Add a node: drag it over the group until the group highlights, then drop it.
- Remove a node: drag it until it no longer overlaps the group, then drop it.
- Size: the group hugs its nodes, growing and shrinking as they move or as a chat inside gets longer. There's no manual resizing.
Branches you start from a node inside a group land in the same group.
Click the group's dashed area to select it, and two buttons appear beside its name:
- Tidy up arranges the nodes inside left to right, following their connections. The canvas-wide Tidy Up moves each group as one block and leaves its inside alone.
- Ungroup removes the box and leaves the nodes where they are.
Grouping, ungrouping and tidying each undo in one step.
Deleting a group
Selecting a group and pressing Delete or Backspace deletes the group and every node inside it. Restore on the "Node Deleted" toast, or undo, brings them back. To keep the nodes, click Ungroup instead.
A group you've emptied stays behind until you select it and press Delete.
Use a group as context
Connect a group to a chat and the chat reads everything inside it: each node arrives as if you had connected it directly, plus a note naming the group and listing its nodes top to bottom, left to right. The group is read fresh on every send, so later additions count from the next message.
To connect one:
- Drag from the group's right handle to a chat node, or double-click the handle to start a new chat already connected to it.
- Type
@in a chat's input and pick the group. Groups are listed with their node count. Unnamed ones appear as "Untitled group". - With a chat active, drag the group right from the bottom of the node navigator on the canvas's left edge.
Only the group's own nodes count. Anything feeding into them from outside the group doesn't come along, so connect it separately if the chat needs it. See Connections and context.