Links & backlinks

Notes in Aletheia connect to each other, and those connections are navigable in both directions. Some links you make; most Aletheia infers.

Wiki-links & citation pills

You can link one note to another with a note-link. The rendered form is a citation pill — a small chip showing the target note's title. Clicking it opens that note and, when the link carries a quoted passage, scrolls to and briefly highlights the exact quote.

Citation pills are the same mechanism chat uses to ground its answers: every claim chat makes is backed by a pill linking to the source note. So the "click a claim, land on the evidence" behavior you see in chat is the same behavior your own note-links get.

Chat grounds every claim with citation pills (highlighted) — the same note-link mechanism you use by hand.

Backlinks

You don't have to link both ways. When note A links to note B, note B automatically shows a backlink to note A in its sidecar. Open any note and its Backlinks section tells you what else refers here — the incoming half of its neighborhood.

Backlinks and linked notes live in the sidecar alongside the note's other metadata. **①** Outline · **②** Action Items · **③** Entities.

Inferred connections

Beyond explicit links, Aletheia derives edges between notes:

• Shared entities — two notes that name the same person or project are related.

Shared entities drive inferred edges: two notes naming the same entity here become related. **①** Entities heading · **②** an individual entity chip.

• Shared tags — notes on the same topic.
• Semantic similarity — notes whose meaning is close, even with different words.
• Materialized relations — the pipeline can infer references, supersedes, and contradicts relationships (e.g. a decision that supersedes an earlier one).

These are what let chat trace connections between things you never manually linked — "connect this person to that decision" works because the edges are already there.

Navigating the neighborhood

The sidecar's Backlinks and linked-notes rows are your in-editor graph: click through to hop from a note to its neighbors and back. Combined with entity chips (jump to a person, then to their notes), you can walk your corpus by relationship rather than by folder.

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Let links form themselves

You rarely need to hand-author links. Name the same people and projects consistently across notes, and the shared-entity and similarity edges connect everything for you. Reserve explicit note-links for when you want a specific pointer ("see the decision record") that should survive even if the wording drifts.

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