Suggested links
Wiki-links only connect the notes you remembered to connect. Suggested links close the gap: at the foot of a note, Notate offers other notes that cover related ground, whether or not anything links them today.
The suggestions come from the same understanding that powers semantic search: what a note is about, not which words it happens to share. A note on running out of storage can be suggested alongside one about download limits even if the two use no common phrasing.
Using them
Each suggestion is a note title you can open. If the connection is a real one, link to it and it becomes an ordinary [[wiki-link]] in your file. The suggestion is a prompt, never an edit made on your behalf.
Ask why. A suggestion can look arbitrary until you know what prompted it. Ask for an explanation and Notate says what the two notes have in common, in a sentence. It happens on request rather than automatically, because generating it costs an AI call and most suggestions do not need one.
Dismiss what does not fit. Notate remembers a dismissal, so the same wrong pairing does not come back. Dismissals sync, so a pair you rejected on one device stays rejected everywhere.
Backlinks show their context
Backlinks changed alongside this, and work differently: the panel now shows the line each link sits in, not just the title of the note that links to you. Seeing the sentence around a link usually answers “why does this note point here?” without your having to open it.
Backlinks are computed from your own files and need no plan or AI.
What it needs
Suggested links need the AI plan and are not available on an end-to-end encrypted account, because the comparison happens against content an encrypted account never gives the server in readable form. See The Note Map for the same constraint on the Meaning map.