Wikilinks and backlinks

Linking isn't something you do afterwards. You do it while you write, or while you jot a note — and it goes both ways automatically, with nothing else to keep in sync.

How to link

Type [[ anywhere text is Markdown — manuscript prose, a Story Bible field, a note, a margin comment — and a completion menu opens over every record in the project, grouped by type. Pick one, or keep typing a name and press return, and the link lands where the cursor was.

You can also select a word or phrase already on the page, right-click it, and choose Add to Story Bible. That creates the record (or finds one that already exists with the same name) and wraps the selection in a link to it, in one step.

What you get back: backlinks

Every record has a Connections tab. It lists every place that links to that record — automatically, with no separate step to run. Link a scene's prose to a location, and the location's Connections tab shows that scene. Link a note to a character, and the character's Connections tab shows that note. There's no indexing to remember to do; the link is the whole action.

This works the same everywhere a link can be written — manuscript prose, Story Bible fields, Notes, and margin comments on the manuscript. A comment saying "check [[Ada Marsh]]'s motive here" is not just a reminder to yourself: it's a real, bidirectional connection between that passage and her record, visible from either side.

A note-taking practice, if you want one

A note with no links is just a note. A note linked to the records and passages it's actually about becomes something you can find again from either end — open the record, and the note is right there in Connections, whether you remembered writing it or not. That's the whole practice: link as you go, and let the record's own Connections tab be where things resurface, rather than trying to keep a separate index of what you've written where.