Core concepts
Learn the eight terms the rest of these docs use without re-explaining.
Workspace
Section titled “Workspace”The container you open in Orbit: a set of notes, folders, tags, and templates. A personal workspace is an Orbit folder in your own OneDrive — private by default. A team workspace is an Orbit document library in a SharePoint site — everyone with access to the site has access to the workspace. Details: Personal and team workspaces.
A single page in your wiki. You edit it as rich blocks — headings, lists, tables, callouts, diagrams — and Orbit stores it as a portable .md markdown file in Microsoft 365. Multiple people can edit the same note live.
Folder
Section titled “Folder”A real folder in OneDrive or SharePoint that groups notes inside a workspace. Folders nest. What you organize in Orbit is organized identically when you open the storage location directly.
Editor seat
Section titled “Editor seat”The license that lets a person edit. Reading is free for everyone, in every workspace; editing any workspace — including your personal one — requires an active editor seat. Every organization includes free seats. Details: How editor seats work.
Share link
Section titled “Share link”A link that gives a specific person, or anyone in your organization, access to one note — with a read or write role and an optional expiry. Every recipient signs in with Microsoft; there are no anonymous links. Details: Share notes.
Wiki link
Section titled “Wiki link”A [[link]] from one note to another by name. Wiki links survive renames — Orbit rewrites references when the target note is renamed. Details: Wiki links.
Backlink
Section titled “Backlink”The reverse of a wiki link: on any note, Orbit lists the notes that link to it, so context accumulates without manual upkeep.
A visual map of your workspace: notes as nodes, wiki links as edges. Open it from the sidebar Graph view. Details: Backlinks and graph.
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