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Pages And Wikilinks

A page is a document with a name: a project, a person, a topic, anything that outlives the day it was first written about. A wikilink, [[Name]], is how one document points at another, and it is what turns a folder of notes into a graph: every page shows what links to it, and a name exists the moment something links to it, before it has a page at all.

Link to a page

Type [[ and start the name. A menu opens with matching names as you type: pages, journal days, aliases (shown as → Page name) and names that are linked somewhere but have no page yet (shown as Not yet created). Exact matches come first, then names that start with what you typed, then names that contain it. Up and Down move, Enter or Tab completes the link and closes the brackets, Escape closes the menu. If nothing matches, the last row offers what you typed as a New concept.

The quickest way to link a word you have already written is to select it and press [ twice: the first press brackets it, the second turns it into a link and opens the menu with the word as the search.

A link renders underlined in the link colour, brackets included; the brackets are always in the file. A link to a name that has no page yet has a dashed underline, so it reads as not yet a page rather than as an error. Links inside a code block are text.

Click a link (tap it on a phone) to open the page it names. It opens in the pane the link is in.

To put the cursor into the link's text instead, hold Ctrl (Cmd on a Mac) while you click, or arrow into it from beside it. Editing a link's text in place is one way to rename the page it names (Titles Aliases And Frontmatter).

Right-click a link (long-press on a phone) for Rename….

Follow a link to a page that does not exist

When you write [[Kanban]] and nothing is called that yet, the name is part of your graph straight away. Quick Find, Search and the link menu all offer it, marked with how many notes mention it, and its backlinks list every mention.

Opening it gives you a draft: an empty page you can read and type into, with everything that links to it shown in the Backlinks panel. Nothing is written by looking. The page is created the moment you type something, and the tab carries on as the real page with the cursor where it was. So you can follow a link, see who mentions the name, decide it was not what you wanted and leave, with your graph exactly as it was. A draft takes its name from however you have most often written it, so a page never disagrees with the links that point at it.

If the page appears underneath a draft you have already typed into, because another device or another person created it, a notice says so and Open it keeps what you have typed.

Create a page

Any of these makes a page:

  • Follow a link to a name with no page, and type.
  • Type a name into Quick Find that matches nothing, press Enter on the + New page row, and type (The Graph Sidebar).
  • On a local graph, drop a file into the pages/ folder (Local Graphs).

There is no "new page" button, because a page is the same thing as a name with something written under it.

Names

  • A name is case-insensitive: [[Physics]] and [[physics]] are one page and pool their backlinks. Whatever case you type is kept in the file; the page's own title supplies the display name.
  • A name can hold any characters, spaces included. Whitespace inside the brackets is part of the name.
  • A page can answer to more than one name through aliases in its frontmatter; a link to an alias opens the page (Titles Aliases And Frontmatter).
  • A name that is a calendar day, [[2026-09-21]], is a journal entry, not a page (Journal Entries).
  • A name can contain another link: [[[[Physics]] Quantum Mechanics]] is the page "Quantum Mechanics within Physics", a separate page from [[Quantum Mechanics]] (Scoped Concepts).

There is no [[Name|other text]]. The link's text is always the name, and the only other names a page answers to are its aliases. That is what keeps the source canonical: a link reads the same in any editor.

Every page's Backlinks panel lists the documents that link to it, grouped by document, with the line each link sits on and the bullets or headings above it (Backlinks). A page's name also counts as a link to any scope in it, so [[Physics]] Quantum Mechanics appears in the backlinks of Physics.

Pages and journal entries

The two kinds of document share one editor and one format. The differences:

Page Journal entry
Name Whatever you choose, changeable Its date, fixed
File in a local graph pages/Name.md journals/2026-09-21.md
Frontmatter title:, aliases: and the publishing keys aliases: and the publishing keys
Can be protected Yes No
Reached by Links, Quick Find, Search, favourites, recents The same, plus the calendar and Alt+J

Delete a page

Right-click the page's tab, or its row in Favourites, Recents or All documents, and choose Delete…. The dialog says how many documents link to the page; those links stay as they are and become links to a name with no page, so nothing else changes. Deleting a page does not delete the images and files it used, which stay in the graph until you remove them (Images And Files). There is no undo.