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.