Backlinks and the side panes#

The right dock holds four tabs. Three are about the note you are reading; Tags is about the whole vault. app:toggle-right-sidebar hides and shows the dock, and each tab has a command of its own so you can bind a key straight to it.

Backlinks#

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Every note that points at the one you are reading, in two groups.

Linked mentions are real links. Each row shows the linking note and the line the link sits on, so you can see the sentence it was used in. A note that links here three times appears three times — backlinks are per occurrence, not per note.

Unlinked mentions are places where this note's name — or any of its aliases — appears as plain text that could have been a link but is not. The matching is deliberately narrow, so the pane stays useful rather than noisy:

• Whole words only, compared case-insensitively.
• Names and aliases from the aliases property.
• When two notes' names overlap, the longest name wins.
• Never inside an existing [[wikilink]] or [Markdown](link).
• Never inside inline code or a fenced code block.

Outgoing links#

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Where this note points. Resolved links — the ones that find a file — and unresolved links, which are the [[Names]] of notes that do not exist yet. Clicking an unresolved one creates the note, as clicking the link in the note itself would.

This pane also lists unlinked mentions of other notes found in this note, which is the other direction of the same idea: notes you have named in passing and could link to.

Outline#

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The note's headings, indented by level. Click one to scroll the note to it. Works in reading view and while editing.

Tags#

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Every tag in the vault with the number of notes carrying it. Counts merge the two ways a note can be tagged, case-insensitively:

• Inline #tags in the body.
• The tags property in frontmatter — whether written as a YAML list or as a comma-separated string, with or without the leading #.

So #Project, #project and tags: [project] are one tag with a count of three.

Nested tags like #project/scoria are listed as themselves; a tag:#project search also matches them, because a search for a parent tag matches its children. See search syntax.

Keeping up with the vault#

All four panes follow the vault. A note saved in another window, a file added by git, a folder dropped in — the panes refresh within a moment, and so do the resolved and unresolved link counts, because a note appearing can make a link elsewhere resolve.

Not yet#

• Sorting and grouping options in the panes.
• Collapsing a backlink group.
• A local-graph side pane (the graph has a local mode of its own).

Next#

• Search
• Internal links — how link resolution actually decides.