Wikilinks and backlinks

A wikilink connects one note to another by name, not by path. You do not have to remember where a note lives, and moving it does not turn the link into a dead path.

Writing one

Type [[ anywhere and a list of your notes appears beside the cursor, narrowing as you type.

The decision is written up in [[Meeting 2026-09-01]].

Step by step:

Type [[
Start typing part of the note name — the list filters as you go
Press Enter on the one you want

The closing ]] is written for you, and the menu closes as soon as the link is finished.

Linking to a note that does not exist yet

Name something you have not written yet and mdai offers to create it. The new note is made in the folder you are writing in, so the link you just wrote is the link that resolves. That is the whole point: you write the sentence first and the file follows.

Following one

Click a [[link]] and the note opens in the editor. What you clicked is plain text in your file — exactly what you would have typed by hand — and what opens is an ordinary .md file sitting next to the others.

Backlinks — what points at this note

View → Toggle Backlinks opens the Backlinks panel. It lists every note in the vault that links to the one you are reading, with the sentence around the link and the file it came from. Click an entry and that source note opens.

This means a note tells you what refers to it without you keeping any index by hand. You write links in one direction; you can read them in both.

Unlinked mentions — the ones you never bracketed

Below the backlinks sits a second section: Unlinked mentions. These are the places where this note’s name appears in your prose as plain words, with no brackets around it.

Each mention has a Link button. One click turns

We agreed this in the Meeting 2026-09-01 write-up.

into

We agreed this in the [[Meeting 2026-09-01]] write-up.

The rest of the sentence is untouched — only the name gets its brackets.