Doclinks

How Doclinks Work

Doclinks (also known as wikilinks) are how you connect notes and attachments in Octarine. They're powerful, flexible, and make building a web of interconnected notes feel effortless.

To create a doclink, just type [[ anywhere in your note. This opens the doclinks command, which searches across your workspace as you type. It'll find:

• Note titles and folder names — Link to any note in your workspace
• Image and video attachments — Pull in media files you've already added
• Natural language dates — For Daily Desk notes, you can type something like Dec5 and it'll find December 5, 2025. Even if the date doesn't exist yet, you can select it to create a new daily note for that date

Once you've created a link, note doclinks appear as clickable links that show a preview of the linked note when you hover over them. Image and video doclinks are embedded directly into your note, so you can see them without opening anything else.

By default, note doclinks display the full path (excluding the workspace root). If you'd prefer shorter names, you can change this in Settings → Editor → Linked Note Display to show only the shortest unique name.

Creating Notes from a Doclink

What if you want to link to a note that doesn't exist yet? No problem. The [[ command lets you create new notes on the fly.

If nothing matches what you've typed, you'll see two options:

• Create a note in this folder — Creates the note in the same folder as your current note and automatically links it
• Create a note at root — Creates the note at the workspace root and links it

This makes it easy to build out your notes organically as you write, without breaking your flow to manually create files first.

Note

Under the hood, doclinks are stored in Markdown like this:

• Note doclinks: [[Documentation/Formatting]]
• Attachments (with file extensions): [[Screenshot 23.05.png]]