Wiki links - auto suggest existing docs?

While Scrivener does not support blind linking like wikis do, it does support typing in links the way you would on a wiki (like [[this]]), and with a keyboard shortcut you can request title completion, via the Edit ▸ Completions ▸ Complete Document Title menu command.

The setup basics:

  • In settings, under the Corrections tab, enable Automatically detect [[document links]]
  • In the Behaviors: Document Links tab, consider setting Open new document links in… to “(Do not open)”, unless you want something else to happen of course, but that setting will provide the most wiki-like linking behaviour.

Further reading that you might find interesting, if you’re looking to use Scrivener in a fashion that promotes a network of internal links:

There is probably more! While “wiki link” is a good start to search for on the forum, try broadening your search to “internal links document” as that uses the official jargon, and “document bookmarks”, which are not hyperlinks in the editor, but a jump list you can set up in the sidebar (and also how you would find what links to an item as bookmarks are automatically created as back-links). And of course there is a whole major section in the user manual PDF (found in the Help menu) on Linking Documents Together, in §10.1.

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