The knowledge graph and backlinks

A topic does not stand alone. The Knowledge graph panel in a topic shows what it connects to, and Related lists the links an author has created.

The Knowledge graph for the whole workspace, with the scope, subchannel depth and the node and connection filters

Links out, links in

Related (in the topic body area) — topics the author linked explicitly with Link a topic.
Knowledge graph (the panel beside a topic) — the topic’s neighbourhood — its channel, author, tags, mentions and related topics — drawn as a live, interactive map. Click a node to open it; Expand opens it full-screen.
Graph view (the network button in the top bar) — the same connections for the whole workspace, or scoped to one channel, drawn as an interactive map. Pick a scope and a subchannel depth, filter by node type (channel, topic, person, tag, entity) or connection type (contains, parent, tagged, related, mentions, authored, smart link, ai extract, co occurs), and click any node to open it. The map is drawn live from the links that already exist — the ones an author made, plus the ones the platform records automatically from a topic’s content (its channel, author, people mentioned, keywords and tags), which appear as ai extract connections.
From a term — highlight a word or phrase in a topic — its body, title, channel or author — or click a #tag, and choose Graph to open the map focused on that term: every topic, person and tag connected to it.

Ask the graph a question

The graph also answers questions, not just “show me the neighbours”. In the graph view, type into Search the knowledge graph — for example Churchill Munich conference, or "Munich conference" OR Churchill. This runs a search over the organisation’s knowledge and finds a topic when it mentions the terms in combination:

terms are all required by default (AND); use OR to widen, quotes for a phrase, and -term to exclude;
results are ranked and listed beside the map, and each is drawn as a node you can open — so you can see how two things are connected;
the address bar carries the query (/graph?q=…), so you can copy, share or bookmark it.

This cross-product view needs the knowledge-graph service (a Professional or higher package); where it is not available the search box is hidden.

Why it matters

Backlinks answer “what else refers to this?” without a manual index. When someone links a decision to its specification, the specification can show the decision in return — so a reader lands on the whole context, not one fragment.