Journal & pages

The journal is an infinite, reverse-chronological stream of days — today on top, older days lazy-loaded as you scroll. Each day is a single Markdown document — there’s no “filling out a form” feel, just editable text.

The daily feed

Open Zorite and you land on the journal. Scroll down and previous days load on demand; the feed never ends. The journal is the pinned first tab, so it’s always one click away.

Each day is one Markdown document. To edit it, click in (or right-click → Edit) to switch that day to its raw text; click away and it re-renders. Clicking the rendered page drops the caret where you clicked — it edits like a word processor, not an outliner.

Pages, wiki-links, and backlinks

Any note can link to any other with [[wiki-links]]. Typing [[ completes against your page titles and their aliases (an alias shows as alias → Title and links to its page). In the rendered view a wiki-link is clickable; following one navigates to that page, creating it if it doesn’t exist yet. The reverse direction is automatic: every page shows a Linked References panel listing the places that link to it.

#tags work the same way — clickable in the rendered view, each one its own page with its own backlinks.

Block references and heading links

A link can point inside a page, not just at it. End any line with a ^some-id marker to give it an address, then link to it from anywhere with [[Note#^some-id]]; or skip the marker and link straight to a heading with [[Note#My Heading]] (case-insensitive). Clicking either opens the note and jumps to that line.

Both links read cleanly — [[Note#^some-id]] displays as Note → some-id (an |alias still overrides the label) — and the ^id marker itself stays out of the way: hidden in the reading view, dimmed in the editor until your caret is on its line. file.pdf#p3 keeps its page-jump meaning, and a page whose title literally contains # still opens by its full name.

Embeds (transclusion)

A line holding just ![[Note]] renders that note’s content right there, in a quoted box with a clickable source label. ![[Note#My Heading]] embeds one section, ![[Note#^some-id]] a single block, and an |alias renames the label. The box shows the real rendered content — images, math, diagrams, code, even embeds inside embeds — scrolls when it overflows (the wheel hands back to the page at the edges), and live-updates as you edit the source page. In the editor, put the caret on the line to edit the raw ![[…]] text.

Properties

A key:: value line anywhere in a note is a property — Obsidian/Logseq style. Consecutive property lines render as a clean two-column panel: a per-key icon, the muted key, and the value with #tags and [[wiki-links]] shown as clickable pills. Any key works — attendees::, status::, time::, whatever your templates use.

Click the panel (or arrow the caret into it) and it opens an in-place editor that mirrors the rendered panel: edit keys and values directly, pick from a dropdown of every key already used across your notes, add or remove rows, and move between fields entirely from the keyboard. Clicking away writes the key:: value lines back.

All pages → Properties opens the property index: every key with its icon, page count, and values — expand a key to see each value and the pages carrying it, override any key’s icon from a picker (or map one before the key’s first use), and rename a key across every page at once.

Namespaces and sub-pages

Name a page with :: to nest it. A page called Projects::Tasks lives under Projects: the sidebar shows the namespace tree, each page lists its sub-pages, and a child page shows a clickable breadcrumb back to its ancestors above the title. Namespaces are just naming — there are no folders to move things between.

Renaming a namespace cascades: rename Projects and every Projects::* page is retitled with it, [[links]] included (if a child would collide with an existing title, nothing moves). Right-click a page in the sidebar for New sub-page, which starts the New-page dialog pre-filled with Parent::.

Aliases

A subdued alias:: field on a page takes alternate names for it. Give your chicken page alias:: hen and a [[hen]] link anywhere resolves to it. Handy for abbreviations, plurals, and renamings you don’t want to chase down.

The / command palette

Type / anywhere in an editable note to open a compact menu. Pick a Markdown construct — headings, lists, to-dos, quotes, code blocks, tables, math, alerts, footnotes, dividers, or inline formatting — or a Template, or insert the current date or time with /date and /time. Typing filters across everything; click an item or press Enter to insert it.

Editing tables, lists, and text

Everything you insert stays editable in place:

• Tables behave like a small spreadsheet. The arrow keys move from cell to cell and keep your column; Tab / Shift+Tab step through cells, and Enter drops to the row below. Hover a table for + / − handles to add or delete a row or column, or right-click it for the same plus per-column alignment and Delete table.
• Lists and to-dos continue themselves — press Enter and the -, 1., or - [ ] marker carries to the next line; press it again on an empty item to end the list. Click a to-do’s checkbox to toggle it. Numbered lists display Word-style markers by depth (1. → a. → i.), always counted from 1 — indenting with Tab starts the nested list over, whatever the raw digits say.
• Inline formatting — select text and press ⌘B / ⌘I / ⌘E (Ctrl on Windows and Linux) to wrap it in bold, italic, or inline code.

Templates

Create a page named Templates and define snippets with !name headers. Every line under a !name (until the next !name) is that template’s body:

!meeting
## Meeting {{date}}
- Attendees:
- Notes: {{cursor}}

!standup
- Yesterday:
- Today:
- Blockers:

Type /meeting in any day or page to insert it. Placeholders expand on insert:

Placeholder	Expands to
{{date}}	Today’s date
{{time}}	The current time
{{title}}	The current page or day’s title
{{cursor}}	Where the caret lands after insertion

As-you-type completion

Completion menus appear as you type:

• [[ suggests pages and whiteboards — and offers to create one if no match exists.
• # suggests tags.
• {{ suggests template placeholders.

Brackets and quotes auto-pair, and the pairing is prose-aware, so an apostrophe in don't is left alone rather than turned into a pair.

There’s also an opt-in auto-link (Settings → Markdown): type an existing page’s title and it wraps itself as [[Title]] on the next boundary keystroke. One undo step reverts a wrap you didn’t want.

Markdown & diagrams

The rendered view is CommonMark + GFM: headings, bold / italic / code, lists, quotes, tables, strikethrough, and <mark> highlights. GitHub alerts (> [!NOTE] through [!CAUTION]) render with icons and themeable colors, and fenced code blocks get syntax highlighting for the common languages. Mermaid diagrams (flowchart, sequence, class) render pure-Rust, themed to your skin; click one to expand it.

Long notes fold: an Obsidian-style fold char makes a callout collapsible (> [!NOTE]- starts folded, + starts open — click the chevron by the title, and the state persists in the note), and every heading folds too — hover one and a chevron appears past the text; click it to collapse everything under that heading up to the next one at its level. Heading folds are view state, not written into the note, and in the editor arrowing the caret into a folded section reveals it while you edit.

Find in page searches the rendered text of the current note, with a highlight and a match count — see Search.

Tabs & multiple windows

Open pages, PDFs, and boards in tabs; the journal is the pinned first tab. Drag a tab to reorder it, drop it on another window to move it there, or release it on empty space to tear it off into a new window. Every window is independent, and edits sync live across all of them.

Sidebar

The sidebar collapses to a slim icon rail. It carries a Favorites group (right-click a page → Add to favorites), a calendar that jumps to any date (days with entries are dotted), an All pages browser with a graph view, collapsible sections, and a recently-viewed page tree with namespace nesting.