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Page Linking & Backlinks

Lithium lets you link pages together using wiki-style links. This turns your pages into a connected web of ideas instead of isolated documents. When you link to a page, it automatically shows up in that page’s backlinks, helping you discover relationships you might have forgotten.

To link to another page, type [[ followed by the page name, then ]]:

Check out [[Project Ideas]] for inspiration

When you type [[, Lithium opens a menu showing pages that match what you’re typing. You can arrow through the list and press Enter to select one, or keep typing to filter further.

If you type a page name that doesn’t exist yet, the menu shows a “Create” option. Select it and Lithium creates the new page immediately, inserts the link, and you keep typing.

The autocomplete menu prioritizes exact matches first, then pages starting with your query, then sorts by recently updated. It shows up to 8 matches at a time.

Links render with brackets visible but styled subtly:

  • Brackets appear in muted text
  • The page name is underlined
  • Clicking the link navigates to that page

Links are case-insensitive for matching. [[Project Ideas]] and [[project ideas]] both link to the same page.

At the bottom of every page, Lithium shows a collapsible Backlinks section. It groups incoming links by source page and shows the actual block content that contains the link, so you can see the context without navigating away.

Click a page title to jump to that page, or edit the backlinked block inline.

If a page has no incoming links, the backlinks section is hidden. Groups are sorted alphabetically by page title.

If you delete a page that other pages link to, those links become broken. Clicking a broken link creates a new page with that name, so you never hit a dead end.