08 Wiki Links & Tags

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The magic bridge that connects note to note: [[ ]] 🌉

• Just write [[Note Name]] — two brackets on each side — and it links perfectly to another note.
• Try typing just [[! Note names from your vault pop up one after another as autocomplete, so you can pick one with ease. Pretty smart, ObsiKO, huh?
• Even if you haven't created the note yet, go ahead and link to it first. Click that link later and a new note is created on the spot, right then and there.

Fly along a link ✈️

• Desktop (PC): just click a link and off you go! (If it's the link your cursor is currently inside, force the jump with ⌘(Ctrl)+click.)
• Mobile or iPad: give it a light tap.
• By the way, click the very link your cursor is sitting inside and it only moves your cursor, carefully, so you don't make a typo. Click any other link — even on the same line — and the document actually opens! A nice thoughtful touch, right? 😉

Peek before you click — link previews 👀

• Rest your mouse on a link for half a second and the target note pops up in a small card. No more clicking back and forth just to check "wait, what was in that note?"
• [[Note#Heading]] previews just that section, and [[Note#^block]] shows exactly that paragraph.
• Images and hand drawings inside the note show up right in the card, and a link to an image file ([[photo.png]]) shows a thumbnail. A link to a note that doesn't exist yet shows a friendly "click to create it" hint.
• On mobile and tablets it works too — when you hover with a mouse or trackpad. Finger taps never trigger it, so navigation stays snappy.
• Prefer it quieter? Settings ▸ Display ▸ Link preview lets you turn it off or show it only while holding ⌘.

Pointing at one single paragraph — block IDs ^ 🎯

Sometimes you don't want the whole note — you want that one paragraph, right there. That's what block IDs are for. (Same convention as Obsidian, so it survives a round trip!)

• Put your cursor inside the paragraph, list, quote, table, or code block you want to point at, then right-click (long-press) → 'Copy link to block'. (You'll also find it in the Command Palette ⌘P, and you can assign your own shortcut.)
• A tiny marker like ^a1b2c3 is quietly appended to the end of that block, and [[Note#^a1b2c3]] lands on your clipboard. Paste it wherever you like!
• That marker is invisible in normal use — it only peeks out when your cursor is on that line. It's stripped automatically when you export to PDF or HTML too.

Try it like this

• Jump to the exact spot: [[Meeting notes#^a1b2c3]] — click it and you land on that very block, which flashes briefly to say "here I am." No more hunting around!
• Pull in the exact spot: ![[Meeting notes#^a1b2c3]] — add one exclamation mark and that block appears inside your note (an embed). Edit the original and this updates too, so you never write the same thing twice.
• Autocomplete has your back: type just [[Meeting notes#^ and the blocks in that note pop up as a list. (Type only # and you get its headings!)

💡 If a heading is granular enough, [[Note#Heading]] jumps and embeds just the same. Block IDs shine when you need a chunk that doesn't even have a heading — a single quote, one table, one to-do line.

Tags that group similar friends together: # 🏷️

• While writing, drop in something like #idea or #todo anywhere. Boom, that's a proper tag!
• Open the Tags panel on the right and you'll see, at a glance, every tag gathered across your entire vault and how many times each was used. Click a tag and everywhere it's used unfolds right there too!

What's the payoff of linking things up like this? 🤩

• You'll know who's been quietly calling out to you! → Backlinks & Outline
• You'll get to see how your knowledge connects, like a gorgeous constellation in the cosmos! → Graph View
• You can zip back and forth between documents at lightning speed! → Search & Navigation

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