# Wikilinks & backlinks

A wikilink is two brackets, `[[like this]]`, and it does more than make a link. Every wikilink also creates a backlink the other way and draws a connection in the graph, so the structure of your thinking builds itself as you write.

Type `[[` anywhere and link to any item by name. No folder, tag system, or database required.

## Why wikilinks matter

- **Connect mid-thought.** Link an idea to a project, a meeting, or a file without stopping to organize anything.
- **Every link is two-way.** The thing you link to gets a backlink back to you, context you never had to file by hand.
- **The links are the structure.** Those connections are what the [graph](/docs/undraverse/groups-and-presets/) draws and what your backlinks come from, so the map of your work assembles itself.

## Writing a wikilink

- **By name**: `[[Team handbook]]` links to that item wherever it lives.
- **With an alias**: `[[Knowledge/Team handbook|the handbook]]` shows your own words but links the same target.
- **As an embed**: `![[Keyboard shortcuts]]` renders the whole item *inside* the current one, live and still editable.

Wikilinks work in note bodies and in plan task descriptions, so a task can point straight at its spec and a note at the project it belongs to. Backlinks themselves are built from the links in your notes.

## Backlinks: context that finds you

Open backlinks on any item to see everything that points at it. They answer the questions you can't search for, like *"where did this come up before?"* and *"what depends on this?"*, without you maintaining an index. Link forward as you write, and the back-references assemble themselves.

## What the connections power

Because wikilinks are real relationships, not just blue text, they feed the rest of Undra:

- **The graph.** Every wikilink is an edge in [Undraverse](/docs/undraverse/groups-and-presets/), so the shape of your thinking becomes something you can see.
- **Live surfaces.** Links keep [canvas](/docs/workspace/canvas/) cards and [plan](/docs/workspace/plans/) tasks tied to the items they came from.
- **Richer context.** Following a note's links gathers the related plans, briefs, and meetings around it, whether you're reading or an agent is.

## A connected workspace, not a folder of files

This is what lets a workspace get *more* useful over time instead of just bigger. You don't have to design a taxonomy up front. You link as you go, and the relationships, backlinks, and graph emerge from the work itself.

:::tip Link first, organize never
Don't stop to decide where something "should" live. Drop a `[[wikilink]]`, keep writing, and let backlinks and the graph surface the structure later.
:::

## Where to go next

- **[Notes](/docs/workspace/notes/)**: where most wikilinks are written.
- **[Undraverse](/docs/undraverse/groups-and-presets/)**: see every connection as a living graph.
- **[Canvas](/docs/workspace/canvas/)**: arrange linked items in space.