Detangle Documentation

Detangle reads a folder of markdown as a wiki. Its one real trick is that it follows links that do not match a filename exactly — which is how wikis written by language models are almost always written.

This folder is also the app's built-in help: open it in Detangle and it reads as a vault.

Guides

• Link Resolution — the thirteen-step chain, and how to read a link's provenance

• Formats — the thirteen wiki conventions Detangle recognises

• Diagrams — Mermaid and DBML, rendered offline

• Search — the query syntax

• Link Doctor — every broken link in one list, and the fixes that are safe

• Graph View — the graph view and what its shapes mean

• Editing and Export — the split editor, atomic saves, and the four export shapes

• Keyboard — every shortcut

• FAQ — what Detangle does not do, and why

The short version

Point it at a folder. Nothing is imported, nothing is converted, and no account is involved. The folder stays exactly as it was — Detangle keeps its index in a .detangle/ sidecar you can delete at any time.