12 Tips & Tricks on How To Use the Arrows Tool

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  • Length: 7 min

Due to popular demand, I'm showing some tips and tricks on how to use the Arrows modeling tool to create graphs for Neo4j.

The arrows tool (r.neo4j.com/arrows (opens in a new tab)) was created by Alistair Jones (twitter.com/apcj (opens in a new tab)) and is minimalist, well thought through and has stood the test of time.

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  • create, edit, delete nodes
  • add label and properties
  • create, edit, reverse, delete relationships
  • chose different styles (presenation vs. professional docs)
  • export to Cypher
  • export your graph to SVG
  • how to clean the graph
  • how to save the markup-data for keeping the graph around
  • how to clean the graph by removing the markup
  • how to restore the graph later
  • using incognito window for a new graph
  • where to find the graph in local storage

Resources mentioned

Data modeling & import