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Linking Ideas

To fully understand and organize what you learn, it's helpful to connect related ideas to each other and reuse them in new contexts.

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ReferencesReferences help you describe the relationships between ideas and quickly move between different parts of your notes.
LinksLinks provide quick access to websites or other bullets when you click on arbitrary text.
BacklinksWhen you link from A to B in RemNote, a backlink from B to A is also created for maximum navigability.
TagsTags improve organization by describing what kind of thing a bullet is.
PortalsPortals open windows to other bullets in different documents, allowing the same content to appear in multiple places.
Search PortalsSearch portals gather together all bullets that match a search query into one place.
What's the difference between References, Tags, and Portals?While References, Tags, and Portals all relate bullets, they have distinct purposes and behavior.
Document SourcesYou can add one or more sources to a document to record where the information in it came from.
AliasesIn real life, concepts are often called by multiple names; aliases allow you to give a concept multiple names in your notes.
PinsPins offer an unobtrusive way to return to the original source of information in your notes.
Merging Duplicate BulletsCombine bullets that refer to the same thing into one.
StubsNotes that are created on the fly while searching can be marked as stubs so you remember to fill in more details about them later.
Knowledge GraphThe Knowledge Graph gives you a broad view of all of your bullets and how they are connected.