Linking Notes

A vault is only as useful as the connections between its notes. Nolagmind links notes together with wikilinks, and keeps track of those connections both ways.

Wikilinks

Type [[ inside any note and start typing a note’s name — an autocomplete drops down, ranked by the same fuzzy matching that powers the main search bar (see Search & Colon Commands).

• Pick an existing note to link to it.
• Type a name that doesn’t exist yet, and the app offers to create it for you on the spot. The same suffixes as Getting Started work here: /m or /mindmap for a mind map, /b or /board for a board.
• Cmd+Enter opens a highlighted link; Cmd+Click or Shift+Cmd+Enter opens it in a new split instead (see Workspace: Tabs & Splits).

Regular Markdown links ([text](url)) still work exactly as you’d expect for external URLs — wikilinks are specifically for linking one note to another inside your vault.

Display text

To show different text than the note’s title, use a pipe:

[[Note Name|shown as this]]

The link still points at Note Name. Autocomplete, backlinks, and Graph View all use the real title.

Heading fragments are not supported

[[Note#Heading]] does not jump to a heading inside Note. Nolagmind treats everything before a | as the note name, so that link looks for a note titled Note#Heading. If you are coming from Obsidian, write [[Note]] and scroll, or fold headings with Option+Z.

Linking by alias

Give a note one or more aliases (see Organizing Notes) and it becomes linkable — and searchable — by any of those names, not just its title. Autocomplete inside [[ ]] matches aliases the same way search does, including the double-match bonus a note gets when what you typed matches both its title and an alias at once.

Rename rewrites links

Rename a note (Shift+Cmd+R, or click the title) and every [[Old Name]] and [[Old Name|display text]] elsewhere in the vault is rewritten to the new name. Display text after the pipe is left alone. You do not have to hunt for stale links.

Backlinks

Every note keeps track of every other note that links to it — its backlinks — including the exact sentence each link appears in, so you can see why a note points to another, not just that it does. Backlinks update automatically as you add or remove wikilinks elsewhere in the vault; there’s nothing to refresh or rebuild.

Turn backlinks on or off from Settings → Editor, or jump straight there with settings: back links.

Suggest links while typing

Separately from typing [[, Settings → Editor has Suggest note links while typing. When it’s on, names you type in running prose can offer a wikilink without the brackets first. Wikilink autocomplete ([[) always works either way.

The same wikilinks that produce backlinks are also what Graph View draws as a map — see Graph View to see your whole vault’s connections at once instead of one note’s at a time.