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title: "The knowledge atlas"
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# The knowledge atlas

The atlas is the front door to a public knowledge network, not an animation placed behind a landing page. It lets you
notice clusters, bridges, and gaps before choosing a node, seeing its neighbours, and entering the writing.

## Relationships come from content

Every node represents a published note or topic. Connections come from Markdown links, topic structure, or explicit
semantic relationships. The system does not invent nodes or random edges to make the image look fuller. Atlas therefore
depends on the same content maintained by [Vault and Blog](https://seetheforest.net/notes/product-system-en/).

## Reading remains connected to the whole

Article pages preserve their domain, topic, related material, and route back to the atlas. Search, ordinary links,
keyboard navigation, and machine-readable interfaces remain available when a visual graph is not the right tool.

You can see a working network in [pystone.net](https://seetheforest.net/notes/pystone-case-en/).

中文版：[02-产品与使用/见林知识星图](https://seetheforest.net/notes/atlas-zh/)。