Folio Writer

A graph of your thinking:
tags, wikilinks & the graph view

A manuscript is not a line, it's a web — methods that feed three chapters, a figure cited from five places, an idea that recurs until it earns its own section. Folio Writer keeps that web visible with three connected tools: tags, wikilinks, and a live graph.

Tags that stay out of the way

Type #high-pressure anywhere and it becomes a small colored capsule right in the editor — or stays plain text, or files itself into the inspector's keywords instead; Settings ▸ Editor decides. Each tag keeps a stable color everywhere it appears. Reserved crossref prefixes (#fig:, #eq:, #tbl:) are never mistaken for tags.

The Tag Index (Write ▸ Tag Index) lists every tag with the documents that carry it — inline mentions and keywords both — and Rename Everywhere rewrites a tag across the whole project in one click, case-insensitively, code blocks untouched.

Wikilinks, backlinks, and the mentions you missed

Type [[ and the binder's titles complete as you type; folders continue path-style ([[Chapter 2/Methods]]). Renaming a document rewrites every link to it. The inspector shows Links To and Linked From — and Mentioned in: places where a document's title appears in prose without a link yet, each one a click from becoming one.

Do you need IDs? Classic Zettelkasten tools use timestamp IDs because filenames break links when notes are renamed. Folio Writer rewrites wikilinks on rename, so titles alone stay reliable — no 202608201142 in your prose.

The graph

Write ▸ Graph View draws the whole project as a live force-directed map — documents as nodes, wikilinks as edges, tags (optionally) as colored hubs joining the documents that carry them. Drag a node and the graph reflows around it; hover to light a note's neighborhood and dim the rest; search to spotlight matches. Local graph shows just the current document to a chosen depth. Orphan notes wear a ring, so the pieces not yet woven in reveal themselves.

Sliders tune the physics — repulsion, link distance, center pull — and the view zooms with the scroll wheel, pinch, ⌘+/⌘−, or Fit. Click any node to open it in the editor.

Where this meets the science

Tags and links live in plain Markdown files, so they survive every exporter: grep them, script them, or read them in any other editor. The graph and Tag Index are part of the one-time Pro unlock; inline tags, wikilinks, backlinks, and mentions are free for everyone.

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