Relate & link Kards

Connect one Kard to another. Kard gives you two ways to link Kards: typed relations (a structured edge like Blocks or Depends on, edited in a panel) and wikilinks (a [[…]] reference you type into a Kard’s description). Both let you jump straight to the linked Kard, and both surface backlinks — the Kards that point back at the one you’re looking at.

This page covers Kard-to-Kard links only. To link a Kard to an actor, Blueprint, or other engine object, see Contexts & references; to pin a Kard in your level, see Anchor Kards in your level. For the full markdown and wikilink syntax, see the Markdown reference.

New to the vocabulary (Kard, folder, status)? Start with Core concepts.

Add a typed relation

A typed relation is a labelled link from one Kard to another — for example, “this Kard Blocks that one.” You add it from the Relations panel on the right rail of any open Kard.

The four kinds are:

Kind	Use it when
Blocks	This Kard stops another from progressing.
Depends on	This Kard needs another finished first.
Duplicates	This Kard is a duplicate of another.
Relates to	A loose connection — the catch-all.

To add one:

1. Open the Kard you want to link from.
2. In the right-rail Relations panel, click + Add.
3. In the picker window, choose a kind from the dropdown (it defaults to Relates to).
4. Search by title and select the Kard you want to link to.
5. Click Add Relation.

The new relation appears as a chip under its kind in the Relations panel. Click a chip’s label to jump to the linked Kard; click its × to remove the relation.

Note

A Kard that no longer exists shows its chip dimmed with a (missing) suffix — for example, if the linked Kard was deleted. The link isn’t lost; the target just can’t be found.

Understand backlinks

Relations are stored on the source Kard only. When you add a “Blocks” relation from Kard A to Kard B, that edge lives on A. Kard B doesn’t store anything — instead, Kard queries which Kards point at B and shows them as backlinks.

This has one consequence worth knowing:

Caution

Backlinks appear after you save, not instantly. The incoming side is derived from a project-wide query that updates when the linking Kard is saved to disk — not on every keystroke. After you add a relation to Kard A and save it, Kard B’s backlinks refresh. This is an engine constraint, not a delay you can turn off.

There’s nothing to maintain on the target side: you never edit a backlink directly. To change or remove an incoming link, open the source Kard and edit the relation there.

See a Kard’s backlinks

Open any Kard and look at the Backlinks section in the right-rail Relations panel, below the outgoing relations. It groups the Kards pointing at this one by relation kind:

Section	Shows Kards that
BLOCKED BY	declare a Blocks relation to this Kard
DEPENDENTS	depend on this Kard
DUPLICATED BY	mark this Kard as a duplicate
RELATED FROM	relate to this Kard
MENTIONED IN	reference this Kard in their description with a wikilink

Backlink chips have no × — to remove one, edit the source Kard. Clicking a chip jumps to that Kard.

Link Kards in text with wikilinks

Inside a Kard’s description you can link to another Kard by typing a wikilink — Kard’s internal link form. It renders as a clickable chip.

You type	Result
[[Target]]	A link to the target Kard.
[[Target|Display]]	The same link, shown with your own label instead of the Kard title.

Wikilinks resolve to:

• Another Kard, referenced by its GUID — [[<Kard GUID>]].
• A specific comment on a Kard — [[<Kard GUID>#comment-<comment GUID>]]. Clicking it opens the Kard and scrolls to that comment.

Both forms accept the optional |Display segment, and Kard keeps your label even if the target can’t be resolved yet — your text is never silently dropped.

Tip

You don’t have to type GUIDs by hand. In a description, type [[ to open an inline picker and choose the Kard. To grab a link to a specific Kard or comment, use Copy Markdown Link from a right-click menu and paste it in. See the Markdown reference for the autocomplete triggers.

Note

Wikilinks are for linking inside Kard. For a plain external web address, use standard markdown — [label](https://example.com) — which opens in your system browser. Reserve [[ ]] for Kard-to-Kard references.

A Kard mentioned by a wikilink picks up a backlink too: it appears under MENTIONED IN on the referenced Kard — after the Kard containing the wikilink is saved (same save-to-see rule as relations above).

Relations vs. wikilinks — which to use

• Use a typed relation when the connection has meaning you want to track — a blocker, a dependency, a duplicate. It’s a deliberate, structured edge that shows up in the panel on both Kards.
• Use a wikilink when you’re writing and want to reference another Kard inline, mid-sentence. It’s casual prose, and it shows up as a Mentioned in backlink rather than a typed edge.

Kard keeps the two separate on purpose: a wikilink mention never becomes a typed relation automatically.

Related Reads

• Create & edit Kards — the Kards you’re linking together.
• Contexts & references — link Kards to actors, Blueprints, and other engine objects.
• Anchor Kards in your level — pin a Kard to a 3D spot and see it in the viewport.
• Core concepts — the object model the rest of the docs assume.