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.
• 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.

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.

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.

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.