Layouts
Layouts provide a quick way of automatically rearranging the
entities and links on your chart to improve the appearance of
your chart and to help you analyze the structure of chart data.
When applying a layout, Analyst’s Notebook does not change
the zoom level. Your chart view remains at the same place
and level of zoom as it was before applying the layout. This
may mean that after applying a layout you may need to adjust
your view.
Analyst’s Notebook provides two main types of layout,
depending on what kind of data your chart contains layouts
for association charts and layouts for timeline charts.
For a new chart, it is often a good idea to apply several
different types of layout, to determine which provides the
most revealing view of the data in your particular
investigation. Having identified a layout, you can then try
experimenting with the settings for this layout for even
better results.