Working in Filamental
A New Perspective
Filamental is a working environment.
A different lens for your files…
but you can see everything, connect anything and it steals nothing.
Building Your World
Total awareness
Sketch out a plan in 2D, flip to 3D to see the shape, back into 2D to sort the hierarchy… spin, drag, add, create!
Place your nodes and draw connections.
A single 'world' can hold multiple structures. Keep them separate, connect them when the relationship becomes clear.
Created and held forever as a folder.
Total flexibility.
The structure is yours to design.
Filamental does a lot, so let it evolve with you.
What you can do
Build in 3D or 2D
Group nodes into categories
Define connector types
Use Dark Energy to expand nodes into chained filaments across your space
Use Gravity to manage your visual space
Built-in 'Help Playground' with guides and examples
Editing Your Work
Every node is a working document.
The right panel provides the notepad, relationships, properties and attachments.
Pop the panels into windows to keep them to hand.
The left panel is for order.
The right panel is for information.
The middle is how it fits together.
What you can do
Write documentation in any node (w/wikilinks)
Attach files, images, links, references
Pop nodes out for parallel editing
Edit files in external editors
Assign properties
Trace relationships via the panel
Navigating Your Space
Pinch, swipe, pan, drag, press, click
The controls and orientation are intuitive and easy to pick up.
We have not reinvented established mechanics.
All there, all familiar.
Space is a luxury.
The only limits are your hardware and imagination.
What you can do
Create Bridges between spaces and folders
Conventional controls
Search content
Toggle layers to hide or show categories of nodes and connectors
Use the grid to anchor your bearings
Share Your Thoughts
Most of the time Filamental will operate as a working surface, but sometimes you may need to show your work.
For those times, you can have a little fun.
And if you must use Powerpoint, you can attach your presentation as a node and launch it from there.
"Wait, this is how you think?!"
It isn't showing off, it's providing the environment to express your thoughts.
What you can do
Add beautiful, looping animated backgrounds (or upload your own)
Switch between themes to suit the moment, from quiet backgrounds to impactful presenting
Frame and export screenshots
Export 360 drone shots
Your work has value, you worked hard to create it.
Will you hand it over to a SaaS to please their investors?
Your work, your files
Everything you build is sovereign. It lives in a folder and is saved in open formats, markdown for the content, YAML for the structured data.
It is a folder you can open, browse, back up, and move anywhere.
Use any text editor
Local or in your cloud
Normal backups
No lock-in
Filamental reads these files. You own them.
Making it yours
The Filamental team loves structure but leaves the matters of taste and style to you. (This is apparent if you have ever met them.)
Upload your own background pictures and videos. Use company logos or go wild searching on Pexels!
Multiple UI themes
Colours for categories and connectors
Adjust visual density using layering and physics
Configure the panel layouts
Create unique environments for your Worlds, from drafting with no distraction to presenting with impact.
Why Filamental is made this way
Most software is now delivered through a browser, funded by venture capital, and designed to maximise the time you spend inside it. The incentives of that model produce what they produce - relentless notifications, contrived urgency, features added for engagement… it's all rather tiring and self-important.
Filamental doesn't do that.
It is an application you install, deliberately, sitting on your desktop as a considered piece of your working equipment rather than a tab you forgot was open. The files it writes are yours, not ours, we do not demand your data or adoration.
We make the bet that users and companies still care about their data - because if we don't, no one else will.
Software used to be this kind of thing by default. It became something else because the industry changed, not because you did. We remember when the customers were the ones buying the product, not the ones investing in it.
You are not the product.
This is the application. This is how it is delivered. The rest is up to you.
