Organizing your vault

Organizing your vault means finding any note instantly, giving your notes just enough structure to stay navigable, and reusing what you've already written — all while everything stays as plain Markdown files you own.

Altretta doesn't impose a structure on you. Your knowledge lives as folders, links, and tags — your choice — and Altretta gives you the tools to move through it fast: a file tree, full-text search, bookmarks, daily notes, templates, and database-style Bases. Then it goes one step further and can generate a living map of any area for you.

If you've used Obsidian or Logseq, everything here is familiar — same file tree, search, bookmarks, daily notes, templates, and Bases. The difference is Maps & Manuals: Altretta can build and maintain an index of an area of your vault automatically, from its real semantic graph, instead of you hand-curating a map of content.

Organize how you think

There's no single "right" structure. Use whichever of these fit how you work, and mix them freely:

Folders — a familiar file tree for people who like a place for everything.
Links — connect notes directly; structure emerges from how ideas relate, not where files sit.
Tags — cut across folders to group notes by topic or status.
Properties — typed frontmatter you can filter and sort on with Bases.

Everything stays as plain files on disk, so you're never locked into one scheme — reorganize any time and your links follow.

Find, structure, reuse

Files & folders

Create, move, rename, and delete notes in the file tree. Renaming or moving a note rewrites every link to it across the vault automatically.

Search

Fast full-text search across the whole vault — jump to any note instantly.

Bookmarks

Pin the notes you return to for one-tap access.

Daily notes

One dated note per day for journaling, logging, and quick capture.

Templates

Reusable note scaffolds with placeholders so every note of a kind starts consistent.

Bases: tables & cards

Database-style views over your notes' properties — filter and sort like a lightweight database.

Maps & Manuals ✦

Auto-generate a living map of your vault — hubs, topic clusters, orphans and indices — built from the semantic graph rather than hand-curated.

Don't over-organize up front. Write and link first; then use search, bookmarks, and Maps & Manuals to surface the structure that's already there. The ✦ Maps & Manuals is where Altretta goes beyond a manual map of content.

Writing & editing

Where notes come from — the editor, Markdown, links, tags, and properties that organizing builds on.

The graph

Structure you don't have to create by hand: backlinks and the graph view surface how your notes already relate.

Grounded, cited answers ✦

Once notes are findable, your AI can answer from them with citations.

Glossary

Vault, frontmatter, property, Base, Map of Content — defined.