The editor is a powerful tool and exposes a lot of functionality! This guide will help you get acquainted with using it.

Make sure to get acquainted with Creating a Feed.

NOTE: Once your feed has been published it will take time to accumulate posts as they are made in the network. Currently graze only adds posts to feeds as they happen. We plan on adding “backfilling” to make that smoother.

The Basics

The most basic node in Graze is the “Feed” node. This is the node that defines how your feed includes posts to show in your feed.

A feed node can contain one of any other type of node.

For example, here we add a “Word List” node to the feed. This node will either include or exclude a list of words from your feed. Here we include any posts that mention hot dogs or hamburgers.

Only nodes in the “Feed” node will be included in your feed.

Complex Logic

That’s fine and all, but only one node?! …nope 😄

There is also a special node that you can use to create complex logic for your feed. This is the “logic” node.

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The and setting in the Logic node makes it so that you can confirm that a post passes multiple filters.

In this example a post needs to mention hamburgers/hot dogs and the post must also not contain the word “McDonalds”.

With the and all nodes must pass the filter.

or

The or is much like the and. Instead of every node having to pass the filter, the post is included if any of the nodes pass.

Take the following example. Here a post will be included in the feed if I contains and image or a video.

Combining

With just those two things, you can do some pretty complex things!

You can even combine the and and the or as much as you want.

In this example a post will be included if it contains “McDonalds” and has an image or video attached.

Once you’ve learned these concepts you can label yourself a programmer! What we just did was use “boolean logic” to create a filter for our feed. If you want to read more about boolean logic, head over here.

Annotations

The Graze editor also support annotating your feed with sticky notes, text and arrows.

Use the bottom toolbar to add them.

Node Documentation

To get details information about what the nodes are and what they do you can either access the information through the sidebar.

Or the information tooltips on the nodes themselves.