any plans for wiki links and backlinks?
How about transclusion?
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Many plans!
Until any materialize, share what you would like to see, and how exactly. Ever folder of documents is different nowadays.
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Backlinks among my Lettera files would be wonderful. If it could read my Bear notes… that would be very useful, too. Not sure how you would accomplish that.
The question is what Lettera’s approach is. If it’s simply a matter of editing notes/files and adding a custom file browser to the app for the sake of convenience, then you could consider the app almost finished. All that’s left is some polishing. But to be honest these days every writing or note-taking app is expected by users to offer at least a basic set of features. And that includes not only wiki links and backlinks, but also tags.
Would be nice to have links from one document to another. I see “Wiki Link” in the format menu, but when I insert [[FILE]] - it’s not clickable.
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I’m imagining something like [[Wikilnk]] syntax that matches any .md file within a customizable set of watched directories (managed in Settings), and displays muted links if they don’t match anywhere (and maybe another color if there’s a conflict). Clicking a problem link could search for/open a file browser to that file to add a new directory, or show the matches for disambiguation.
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Ditto here. This [[name of file]]or [[name of file.md]] are not clickable. I’ve tested this will files in iCloud and on the local machine. Lettera build 3980.
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Wiki linking with documents within the file list would be great. iA Writer does this really well as well, so might be worth checking out how they do it (at the risk of going off at a tangent, the two other things that they do really nicely is quick open and including other documents).
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I’d like Lettera to support Markdown dialects in addition to Common Mark. I really want support for definition lists in addition to ordered and unordered lists. Not having support in Bear has been a little annoying to say the least.
The Bear MCP was a pleasant surprise, keep the AI features going with Lettera.
Which reminds me: I tried using Bear to edit CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md files a while ago; I don’t remember the details, but I recall it not being a great experience.
Being able to copy content from a website and paste it as Markdown into Lettera would be super handy as there is much use of Markdown with agents, etc. Currently if I want to copy from the web and paste as Markdown, I have to paste into an editor that recognizes there’s web content in the clipboard and gives the option to paste as Markdown and then copy/paste into Bear/Lettera.
That’s it for now.
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Same experience here. I’m sure it’s in the works, so not concerned about it, but flagging just in case it’s not expected to behave the way it is currently.
I’d imagine the app settings could allow controlling whether to create a new MD file if there is no match in the watched folder; or display as a broken link.
I can see both cases could be useful at times. In fact, I’d imagine, it would be quite useful if some app settings could be overwritten per folder; even if it is via some dotfile.
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NB: Wikilinks are on the way and there to stay. Sorry for the confusion and thanks for the rigorous testing. You’re not holding this wrong 
My 2 cents on wikilinks. For me, one of the key advantages of local files is that I can organize them by subject/domain/project, as opposed to having folders by file format. For example, if I have a project with markdown notes, spreadsheets and PDFs, local files allow me to save them all under the same project folder. Whereas if my notes are in Bear, then that markdown file about the project can’t be filed (as far as I know) in my project folder together with the spreadsheets. Even local-first note-taking apps like Obsidian are clunky with this, as they are meant to function in a root folder that is meant for markdown files (and other files that are very specific to the app’s narrow use case).
It would me amazing if Lettera allows me to link to files anywhere in a folder structure that is not exclusive to Lettera, and even better if this team finds a way to make that easier than manually typing full file paths.