Reference
Wikilinks or backlinks are missing
Check Kition’s live wikilink resolution order, reload its cache, and distinguish backlinks from the bounded Broken Links scan.
Updated
By Kition Docs
Verified against Kition 0.1.41 (d3e1b931) on 2026-08-29
Check the target
The live resolver tries an explicit or root path, then a path relative to the source document, then a sibling, then a unique basename match. Ambiguous basenames are safer when rewritten as explicit paths.
- Use a workspace-root or explicit path when two documents share the same name
- From a source document, try the target as a source-relative path
- For a sibling document, its sibling path or basename can resolve
- The
.mdand.kitableextensions can be omitted
Reload after file changes
Reload the workspace after files are created, moved, renamed, or synchronized from another device. A workspace reload invalidates the wikilink resolver cache.
Kition 0.1.41 does not automatically rewrite incoming wikilinks when a target is renamed. Update old links at their source.
Backlinks and Broken Links use separate scans
The Backlinks panel scans explicit [[...]] references in at most 500 Markdown files. It does not infer backlinks from table document_link fields.
Broken Links is available from the document command palette and scans at most 600 Markdown files. Its scanner is less complete than the live resolver for some relative paths, so it can report a false positive even when clicking the link resolves correctly.
Tip
Treat the live click result as the primary resolution check. If Broken Links disagrees, rewrite the target with an explicit workspace path and reload before reporting a defect.
Implementation sources
Related pages
Wikilinks and backlinks
Link Markdown documents with verified target, alias, heading, and block syntax, then inspect explicit references in the backlinks panel.
Command palettes and quick navigation
Use the small app palette, the document command palette, Quick Open, and global search without mixing up their shortcuts.
Link documents and tables
Store a workspace Markdown path in `document_link`, link back to the Kitable with an ordinary wikilink, and understand the missing automatic sync guarantees.