Linking notes with wikilinks

Wikilinks are the connective tissue of an OriginText workspace. Where a normal hyperlink points to a URL you have to type out exactly, a wikilink points to another note by name — and OriginText takes care of keeping those connections live as your notes grow and evolve.

The syntax

Type [[ anywhere in a note to open a wikilink. OriginText searches your workspace as you type and shows a list of matching note titles. Select a result or keep typing to filter it down, then press Enter or Tab to insert the completed link. The result looks like [[My note title]] in the raw markdown and renders as a clickable link in preview mode.

If you type a name that does not match any existing note and confirm the link, OriginText creates the target note for you the first time you follow it — a lightweight way to rough-sketch a structure before filling in the content.

Autocomplete

The autocomplete dropdown appears as soon as you type [[ and dismisses automatically if you close the brackets without selecting anything. It lists the note titles that contain what you have typed so far — you can type just part of a word, not only the start of a title, and OriginText will find notes whose titles include that fragment.

Keyboard navigation

To follow a wikilink without leaving the keyboard, place your cursor on the link text and press Ctrl+Click (Windows/Linux) or ⌘+Click (macOS). The target note opens in the editor. If the note does not yet exist, it is created first and then opened, so forward-linking before you write is a first-class workflow.

Backlinks

Every time note A links to note B, that connection is recorded in both directions. Note B automatically knows that A points to it. OriginText surfaces these reverse connections as backlinks — a panel at the bottom of each note listing every note that links to it.

Backlinks make it easy to rediscover context you wrote elsewhere. When you open an old note on a topic you haven't thought about in months, the backlinks tell you which of your other notes mentioned it and why, without you having to remember or search.

Tips

• Rename a note freely — wikilinks that pointed to the old title are not automatically rewritten, so if you rename often, prefer stable short titles or slugs.
• A link to a note that does not exist yet is rendered in a distinct style so you can see at a glance which links are broken.
• Wikilinks import cleanly when you bring in a .zip of markdown files from Obsidian — the same [[double-bracket]] format is used, so your vault's internal links survive the move.