Internal links
How wikilinks work in Obsidian and Time Garden — the navigation backbone of the entire docs site and your future journal.
Notice all the purple, underlined words scattered through this documentation? Those are internal links — Obsidian's signature feature, and the reason these docs feel less like a manual and more like a little garden you can wander through.
Click any one of them, and you jump to the related page.
The Wikilink Syntax
Internal links use double square brackets:
[What is Time Garden?](/docs/what-is-time-garden)That renders as → What is Time Garden?
You can also display them with custom text using a pipe:
[the system itself](/docs/what-is-time-garden)Renders as → the system itself
Both clicks work the same way.
Whether the link shows the original page name or a custom phrase, clicking it always opens the linked note.
Why Time Garden Is Drowning In Them
Internal links are how Time Garden's five-layer journal connects itself together. Every daily note links to its week. Every weekly note links to its month. Every quarterly note links to its year. The whole thing is a web.
This means:
- Open the graph view (the icon on the left sidebar) and you'll see your entire journal as a constellation.
- Hover over any link to preview the destination without leaving the page.
- Use
Cmd/Ctrl + clickto open a link in a new tab (well, a new pane, in Obsidian terms).
In These Docs Specifically
Every important concept in Time Garden has its own page. So instead of explaining "what's a wheel of life?" four times in four different tutorials, this docs site links you to the one page that explains it properly.
Don't read top-to-bottom.
You don't need to. These docs are designed for wandering: start with Home or What is Time Garden?, follow a link that catches your eye, and let curiosity do the rest. Anything you don't understand is one click away from a page that explains it.
Links in Your Own Time Garden
Inside Time Garden itself, internal links appear all over the place — in the navbar at the top of every note, in the date references on the dashboard, in the auto-generated week/month overviews. They're not decorative — they're how the whole system stays connected.
Type [[ anywhere in a note and Obsidian will offer suggestions from your vault. Try it.