Linking cards with [[wiki-links]]

The connections between cards are often where the real structure lives — this character appears in that scene, this theme threads through those chapters. Cork links cards with the same [[double bracket]] style used by tools like Obsidian and old-school wikis.

Making a link

In any card, type [[ and start typing another card's title. A picker appears — cards on the current board come first, most recently touched at the top — and <kbd>Enter</kbd> inserts the link. The [[Card]] toolbar button does the same thing.

Links show in Cork's accent color. Click one to jump straight to that card, even if it lives on a different board.

Linking to cards that don't exist yet

Type [[The Confrontation]] before you've written that card and the link renders dashed. Click it and Cork offers to create the card on the spot — outline first, fill in later. Writers who plan ahead of themselves, this is for you.

Custom link text

Sometimes the card is titled Mara Vane — protagonist but the sentence needs to read "…until [she] returns." Right-click any card link to open its editor: change which card it points to, or give it display text that reads naturally in your sentence. In markdown terms, that's [[Card title|the text shown]].

Backlinks

Open any card and look for the Linked from row at the bottom — every card that links to this one, across all your boards. It's how you answer "wait, where did I mention the lighthouse keeper?" without searching. Backlinks update automatically as you write.

Renaming linked cards

Links point at titles, so if you rename a card, links written against the old title will show as dashed (unresolved) until you update them — right-click a dashed link to point it at the renamed card.