Browsing and Searching

Browsing & Searching

There are three ways to find a memory in Apricity: navigate by wing/room, search by text, or follow links between memories.

Navigate by wing → room

The left Rooms pane is a drill-down:

1. Start at the wing list (each wing shows its total memory count; wings with tunnels show a graph-edge glyph).
2. Click a wing to see its rooms.
3. Click a room to filter the Memories pane to just that room.
4. Use the back chevron to return to the wing list, or click the active wing again to collapse it and clear the filter.

Selecting a wing/room keeps any open memory in the Detail pane — navigation never closes your reading.

Search

Focus the search box with ⌘K / Ctrl+K, then type. Apricity searches across memory content and metadata and returns the matching subset of drawers (and knowledge-graph facts).

• Press Enter to jump straight to the first matching memory.
• Search is debounced and runs against the live palace.
• Clear the box to return to the full list.

Filter & sort

• Filter by author — narrow the Memories list to a specific writer (e.g. Claude, Codex, or your dashboard account).
• Sort by date or title. Set your preferred default in Settings → Display → Default sort.

Browse mode

Press F (when no memory is selected) — or use the Memories panel's maximize control — to enter Browse mode: the Memories pane expands to fill the width and lays cards out in an adaptive multi-column grid. It's the fastest way to scan a large room. Press F again (or Esc) to exit.

Browse mode is adaptive: the number of columns scales with the available width. You can tune the behaviour in Settings → Display → Browse mode.

Wiki-style links between memories

When a memory's content contains a wikilink in the form [[drawer_id|Display Title]], Apricity renders it as a clickable link. Clicking it:

1. Opens the linked memory in the Detail pane.
2. Adds a ← Back to previous memory bar at the top.

Back-navigation supports arbitrary depth (follow link after link) and restores your scroll position when you go back. This makes a richly cross-linked palace feel like a small wiki of its own.

Plain hyperlinks in memory content open normally; only [[…]] wikilinks use the in-app back-stack.

URL state — everything is linkable

The current wing / room / memory / query / sort are reflected in the page URL (hash). That means:

• A reload restores exactly where you were.
• You can bookmark or share a link to a specific memory or filtered view (on your own machine / LAN).

Tips

• ⌘K from anywhere → search; Enter → first hit. That's the fastest find.
• Recently-updated memories carry a right-edge accent tint so changed items stand out in the list.
• Use the Knowledge Graph & Tunnels view when you want to explore relationships rather than browse content.

Next: Writing & Editing.