Using the Wiki
How to read, navigate, and edit your Jackdaw knowledge graph.
The wiki is your knowledge hub — a structured view of everything Jackdaw knows about the workspace you're in, with a notes canvas authored by you. Jackdaw maintains subjects, facts, sources, and connections automatically; it does not generate page prose.
This page is about reading and editing what's in the wiki. For getting around it — the sidebar, breadcrumb trail, search, and All knowledge — see Navigating your wiki.
Your hub
When you open Jackdaw, the Context view is your home — the hub for whichever workspace you're in. What it's about depends on the workspace:
- In a personal workspace, the hub is about you.
- In a family or team workspace, the hub is about that household or team.
Every hub uses the same boundary: your notes stay in the editable canvas, while facts pulled from your sources appear as structured, provenance-bearing data. A blank notes canvas is normal. For a person, core facts such as role, organization, and location can also appear in an info box.
Subject pages
Every person, project, organization, or topic Jackdaw knows about has its own page. Click any linked entity to open it. A subject page shows:
- A notes canvas written by you
- Key facts pulled from your data, with review state and provenance
- Linked content — the emails, notes, messages, and events that mention this subject (this is where a fact's provenance lives)
Notes and pages
Not everything is a subject. You can also write freeform pages — plain documents you author yourself, the way you'd jot in Apple Notes. Hit + New in the sidebar and you get a blank page to write in, using the same block editor (headings, lists, callouts, [[ links).
A page isn't a subject: Jackdaw never rewrites its prose or identity-resolves it into an entity. It's a place for your own notes. Facts extracted from those notes stay visibly separate and follow the normal review flow. The page lives in your sidebar tree, can link to any subject, and can hold uploaded documents like any other page.
Editing
Your notes and editable fact fields save as you go. Jackdaw never replaces your notes with generated copy; structured facts and source links update alongside them without entering the prose canvas.
Your core facts
The info box at the top of your hub holds your key facts — role, organization, location, and so on. Click any field to edit it inline. For a fuller pass — including your family (partner, parents, children, siblings) — open Edit profile, where relationships are managed as their own entries.
Upload a document
You can attach a document to your hub, any subject page, or a note — use the upload button in the page header. Jackdaw extracts structured facts and links the file under Linked content so you can inspect the source. It does not turn the document into generated page prose.
Slash menu
Inside the block editor, type / to insert a block:
| Command | Inserts |
|---|---|
| Heading 1 / 2 / 3 | A section heading |
| Bulleted / Numbered list | A list |
| Quote | A quote block |
| Code block | A code block |
| Note / Tip / Warning / Caution / Key facts | A callout |
| Divider | A horizontal rule |
| Link to page | A link to another subject (same as typing [[) |
| New page | A new sub-page |
Wikilinks
Type [[ anywhere in the block editor to link to another subject. Start typing the name and pick from the autocomplete list — or create a new subject on the spot. Links connect your graph, so any AI reading your wiki sees how your people, projects, and topics relate.
Correcting the assistant
If the assistant says something wrong about you, just tell it: "That's not right — I'm not a founder, I'm the CTO." Jackdaw captures the correction and stages it in your inbox for you to approve. Once approved, the corrected fact replaces the wrong one going forward.