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Link suggestions

You write “Marra Vane finally agreed to meet the Kalar envoy” and carry on with the scene. Both are entities in your world — but neither name is a wikilink, so neither page knows about the other, and Mentioned by, the wiki graph and the world’s link views all stay empty on a page that obviously talks about them.

Link suggestions notice that for you.

Two ways it offers

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As you type

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Finish typing a name you’ve already made an entity of, and a small card appears just under it:

🔗 Link Marra Vane esc ✕

Click it and the name becomes a wikilink, without your caret moving. Keep typing and it disappears on its own — it only ever offers the words immediately behind your cursor.

  • Esc hides it for now. That name won’t be offered inline again until you reload the page.
  • ✕ dismisses it for good on this page.

The review pill

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Above the editor, a pill collects everything still unlinked on the page:

🔗 3 unlinked names

Click it to review them. Each row shows the entity, its type, and — most importantly — the sentence the name was found in, so you can tell at a glance whether this is the right call.

  1. Link turns that one mention into a normal wikilink.

  2. ✕ dismisses it. That name won’t be suggested on this page again.

  3. Link all accepts everything currently listed, in one go.

A suggested link is just a link. Once accepted there’s nothing special about it — it behaves exactly like one you typed yourself, and it feeds backlinks, the wiki graph and the Companion the same way.

Beyond the wiki

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The same offer follows your world’s names into the other places they get written:

  • Board notes. Post-its, text boxes, paper and story beats offer names as you type. To see the whole board at once, open Unlinked Names from the board toolbar. A board has to belong to a world first — if it doesn’t, that panel shows you how to add it.
  • Campaign chat. In a channel whose room belongs to a world, names are offered as you type a message. Direct messages and community channels have no world, so nothing is offered there.
  • After a session. The GM’s wrap-up lists Names mentioned in the voice transcript, including ones it misheard — shown as Best guess — heard “mara vain”. Choosing Link adds the session to that entity’s mentions, and teaches the entity that spelling as a Heard as alias so the next session gets it right.

What it deliberately won’t suggest

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The list stays short on purpose — a suggestion you have to think hard about is worse than no suggestion. It holds back on:

  • The page’s own subject, and names already linked on the page.
  • Repeat mentions. Only the first mention of each entity is offered; linking all twelve would turn the page into a field of pills.
  • Short and very common names. Anything under three characters, and single words like “Crown”, “Hope” or “Ash”. An entity called Crown Court is still suggested; one called just Crown isn’t.
  • Ambiguous names. If two entities share a name, neither is offered — there’s no way to know which you meant.
  • Headings, code blocks, and text that’s already a link.

Capital letters don’t matter

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Matching ignores case, so “we asked vexley about it” is offered just as readily as “Vexley drew her blade” — notes written in a hurry are still notes. The trade-off is the occasional offer where a one-word name doubles as an ordinary word, which is why every suggestion shows the sentence it came from.

Aliases work too

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If you’ve given an entity aliases, those are matched as well — both as you type and in the review pill. Writing “the Lawmaker refused to rule” offers a link to Aldren III.

The link text always keeps your wording. Accepting the Lawmaker leaves the sentence reading the Lawmaker, pointing at Aldren III — a suggestion never rewrites what you wrote.

If nothing appears

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Suggestions only show up when there’s something to say. Check you’re editing something that belongs to a world with entities whose names appear in it.

If you’ve dismissed everything, the pill reads Dismissed (n) — click it and choose Show n dismissed to bring them back.

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