Connection Map
Most project views show you a list. A list tells you what exists — it doesn't tell you what's happening, or what's been quietly sitting untouched for three weeks. The Connection Map shows you the shape of a project.
Two views
There's nothing to set up. Both views form quietly from how you've already been working.
Structure
Shows you what a project contains and how it's organized. Notes that have generated a lot of tasks appear larger than lighter ones. Tasks hang off the notes they came from — not as a separate list that's lost its context, but as a visible branch connected to the thinking that produced it.
Activity
Shows you where you actually are in a project right now. What's alive sits close to the center. What's gone quiet drifts outward. Distance is recency — the notes and tasks you've worked on most recently pull in toward the center, and the ones you haven't touched settle toward the edges. The middle of the map is, quite literally, whatever you're in the middle of.
Reading the map
- Size is priority or hub-density. A note that's generated more work is larger. A high-priority task is a larger node than a low-priority one.
- Color is status. Next, Doing, Paused, Exploring — each carries its own color, the same vocabulary used throughout Tareea.
- A ring is deadline urgency — visible in the Triage lens. It warms quietly toward amber as a due date approaches, and turns red with a soft halo once a task is overdue. In Calm, the rings stay neutral so the picture doesn't shout at you.
- Lines show connection. Solid lines trace structure — Folio to note to task. Dashed lines join notes that reference each other. A small ↗ marks a note that lives in another Folio, one click away.
- Finished work fades. Done tasks and archived notes step back toward the edges — still there as the record of what you've built, just out of the way.
Calm and Triage
Switch to Triage when you need to feel the weight of what's urgent. Status color, priority size, and the deadline ring all read together — what needs attention rises, what doesn't recedes. Switch back to Calm for the full picture without the pressure — everything sits at the same visual weight, no hierarchy of importance, just the complete shape of where things stand.
A task with no linked note doesn't disappear from the map. It sits in a quiet, dotted holding node alongside the real notes — a visible signal that something needs to be connected, reviewed, or marked standalone. Drag it onto a note to link it directly from the map.
Organizing directly on the map
The map isn't only for orientation. You can arrange a project's structure from it directly — nest a note under another as a sub-note, connect two notes by reference, or drag an orphan task home. The structure you see is the structure you can shape.
Not a mind map
You didn't draw this. It reflects how you've already been working — every connection earned by something real, every position a function of time and effort, nothing placed by hand. A traditional mind map captures one session of thinking. The Connection Map accumulates over the entire life of a project, automatically.