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Split View Pro

Split View turns the single map into a grid of small islands, each showing one focal project and everything it links to directly. It is the right view when the global map is too dense to follow, or when you want to focus on a handful of projects.

Global View is for the shape of the whole portfolio. Split View is for drilling into specific projects without losing context - perfect for PI Planning, quarterly reviews, or coordinating with a small set of teams.

01. Switching views

Use the Global View / Split View toggle in the navbar, or press:

  • G for Global View.
  • S for Split View.

The canvas fits to screen automatically when you switch.

[ADD SCREENSHOT/IMAGE: Close-up of the Synaps navbar showing the Global View / Split View pill toggle, with Split View highlighted as the active option.]

02. What an island shows

Each island has:

  • A hub project at its centre - the project the island is about.
  • Every project the hub depends on or is depended on by, arranged in rings around it.
  • Only the lines among those projects - the rest of the graph is hidden.

A project can appear in several islands if it neighbours several hubs. It keeps its real size, colour, and tooltip - only the layout changes.

[ADD SCREENSHOT/IMAGE: One Split View island in close-up — a large hub project at the centre, smaller neighbour projects arranged in rings around it, every line between the visible projects shown but nothing connecting to anything outside the island.]

03. Two ways to choose your hubs

A floating panel in the top-left corner of the canvas lets you pick the mode. Click the filter icon to open it.

Top N (default)

Synaps automatically picks the most-connected projects as hubs. A small - / value / + stepper lets you choose how many islands you want.

  • The minimum is 1.
  • The maximum depends on your map - Synaps caps it at the number of projects that actually have cross-project dependencies.

This is the fastest way to see "the projects everyone depends on."

Custom selection

Pin specific projects manually as hubs:

  1. Click the filter icon.
  2. Switch to the Custom Selection tab.
  3. Use the search bar to find projects, then tick the ones you want.

The selected projects appear as small avatar chips in the panel. Click a chip to remove it. If you pin many, the strip caps at 5 visible chips and rolls the rest into a +N pill - hover the pill to see the full list.

[ADD SCREENSHOT/IMAGE: Split View filter panel in the top-left corner — Custom Selection tab active, search bar at the top, five avatar chips of pinned projects in a row, a +3 overflow pill at the end with a hover tooltip listing the extra pinned projects.]

04. When a pinned project disappears

If you pin a project and later it is deleted, becomes inaccessible to you, or stops having any cross-project dependencies, Synaps quietly skips it from the islands. The pin itself is not removed - if the project comes back, it shows up again automatically.

05. How projects are sorted inside an island

More-connected neighbours land in the inner rings, less-connected ones in the outer rings. A tidying pass slides each project along its ring to reduce line crossings.

06. Search in Split View

The search palette (Cmd K / Ctrl K) lists only the hub projects - picking one snaps the canvas to that island. The neighbour projects are not searchable while in Split View; switch to Global to search across everything.

07. What sticks around

The mode you chose, your Top N value, and your pinned projects are remembered across sessions in your browser. They do not sync between devices.