Leaftext

Glossary

Every word Leaftext uses for a part of itself, in one file, alphabetically. Wherever one of these terms appears in a page, Leaftext links it for you; clicking the link opens that entry in a bottom sheet over the page you are reading, so you never leave the document. You can also link one by hand — [minimap](GLOSSARY.md#minimap) from a page in this folder, [minimap](../GLOSSARY.md#minimap) from a page one level down.

Alert

A block quote that opens with > [!NOTE], > [!TIP], > [!IMPORTANT], > [!WARNING] or > [!CAUTION]. It renders as a colored callout in the theme's own colors. Also called a callout. See Rendering.

Alias

Another name a note answers to, listed in its aliases frontmatter field. Every alias works wherever the file's own name works: a wikilink resolves to it, the graph view draws that edge, vault search matches it, and typing help offers it. A real file name always beats an alias, and a node on the map keeps its file's name. Thirty-two per note. See Library.

App bar

The strip along the top of the window: the leaf mark, the library pane button, Back and Forward, the tab strip, then Open and + at the right. The palette that opens the theme picker is at the foot of the library pane rather than up here. There is no Settings button; the update bell joins the right-hand group only while there is something to install. It is also the title bar — drag it to move the window, double-click it to maximize or restore — with Leaftext's own window buttons on both: squares at its right end on Windows, three theme-colored dots at its left end on a Mac. What it holds is about the app; what the floating toolbar holds is about the document.

Appearance

Whether a theme family shows its light or its dark variant. Four choices: System (follow the operating system), Light, Dark, and Daylight.

A bare web address, www. name or email address in your text, turned into a working link without you writing the link syntax.

Back and Forward

Movement through a tab's own history, like a browser. Each tab keeps its own — files you opened, and jumps you made inside a document.

Block

One unit of a document: a paragraph, a heading, a list item, a table, a code fence, a quote. Blocks are what the block gutter moves, what inline editing edits one at a time, and what a scroll anchor points at.

Block gutter

The live strip in the page's left margin. Hover it and two controls follow the line you are level with: a handle to drag a block somewhere else, and a plus that opens the insert row. Markdown and XML only. See Editing.

Blockquote

Text marked with >, rendered with a left bar and a hanging indent. Nest them by adding more >. An alert is a blockquote with a label.

Bottom sheet

A panel that slides up over the reading view without taking you off the page — used for glossary entries, the theme picker, the start screen's folded lists and the flowchart editor's shape picker. It rides a little past its seat and settles back onto it, and leaves quicker than it arrived — pulling up briefly first, unless you dragged it away, in which case it goes straight off. Under Reduce Motion it arrives and leaves in place. Dismiss it with its close button, by clicking outside it, with Escape, or by dragging the grab bar at its top downwards.

The folder path across the top of the library pane — Fieldwork › docs › features. Click any crumb to step back to that level. What does not fit collapses into a … menu. The sync button appears at its end.

Bubble

A small box that floats over the window on a first launch with a chevron aimed at one control, saying what pressing that control does. It goes the moment you point at that control, or press it, and never comes back. The bubble itself ignores the pointer, so crossing it takes nothing away and blocks nothing. One per launch at most, with a quiet launch between two of them, and nothing at all once you have met them. Anything standing over the whole window takes it down while it is up, without counting it met — a sheet, and a picture, a table or a diagram opened on the whole window — and it comes back once the last of them has gone. See Library.

Byte order mark

A few bytes some editors write at the very start of a file to say how the rest is spelled. Leaftext reads it to pick the file encoding, strips it from the text, and writes it back on save — so a file never quietly changes shape.

Code block

A fenced run of code (```). Tag it with a language for syntax highlighting, a language badge, and a Copy button that appears on hover. Clicking into one in the reading view hands you the code, never the fences.

Code view

The document as its raw source — line-numbered, editable, and colored for Markdown, HTML, XML, YAML, JSON and the XML inside a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OpenDocument file, with every other format Leaftext reads drawn as plain text here. Reach it from the floating toolbar. It is Monaco underneath, and it edits every format Leaftext opens but one: an EPUB book is made of several source files, so it says so rather than showing one. See Editing.

Collapsible section

A <details> / <summary> pair, folded away until you click it. Add open to start it expanded.

CommonMark

The Markdown standard Leaftext parses. GFM is what it adds on top.

Confirmation

The one question the app asks before it does something: a box over the dimmed page, naming what is about to happen. Only Delete asks. Escape or a click on the dim cancels, Enter goes ahead, and the safe answer is where the pointer already is. Cut, copy, paste and rename do not ask, because each is reversible by hand and asking about all of them is how asking stops being read.

CSV file

A .csv or .tsv file. Leaftext reads it as one table, the first record as its headings and one row per record under them, split on a tab for .tsv and on a comma or a semicolon for .csv; every cell can be typed into and is written back quoted only where it has to be. See Rendering.

Data file

A .json, .yaml or .yml file. Leaftext reads it as a page — headed sections, aligned fields, and record tables — by the same shape rules the generic XML reader uses. See Rendering.

Daylight

An appearance that shows the light variant between 09:00 and 18:00 local time and the dark variant otherwise.

Email file

An .eml, .mht or .mhtml file — what Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail export. Leaftext opens it as the message it carries: subject, address fields, the body, inline images and a list of attachments. Nothing in it reaches the network. See Rendering.

Emoji shortcode

A GitHub-style name between colons — :rocket: — rendered as the emoji.

Field type

What one frontmatter field holds. Six of them, the same six Obsidian uses: text, list, number, checkbox, date, and date and time. Four things decide it, each beating the one before: the quotes the file already carries, so version: "1.0" is text where bare 1.0 is a number; then the value's own shape; then the vault's .obsidian/types.json if it has one; then a leaftext-types line in the note, one key=type per item. aliases, cssclasses and tags are always lists. See Rendering.

File actions

The right-click menu in the library pane and on a page being read. On a file: Open, Cut, Copy, Copy path, Rename, Reveal file, Properties, Delete. On the page: Copy where words are highlighted, then Favorite, Copy path, Reveal file, Properties, Delete. On a folder or the empty space around it: Open folder, Paste, Reveal folder, Properties. Delete goes to the Recycle Bin or Trash, not away for good, and it asks first — see Confirmation.

File association

The registration that makes a file type carry the leaf icon and offer Leaftext under Open with. Installing claims every extension Leaftext reads, but never takes one another app already owns. See Installation.

File encoding

How a file spells its characters. Leaftext reads UTF-8, and UTF-16 or UTF-32 by their byte order mark. A file is saved back the way it was read. See Rendering.

File tree

The library pane's file list — one folder at a time, with a row that steps back out and a breadcrumb above it. Each click reads exactly one directory, so nothing below what you opened is ever touched.

Floating toolbar

The small bar over the foot of the page. It holds the three views — reading, code and graph — with the one you are in filled in the accent color, plus Undo and Save when there is an edit to take back or write. The settings of the view you are in ride in a tray behind the bar instead of on it: the padlock, the speed reader, the typing help wand and the graph size, whichever of them that view has, and the tray and its handle go where a view has none. A small handle pokes above the button of the view you are in, and resting on it or reaching the tray with the Tab key slides it out over the page; moving away puts it back. On a touchscreen a tap on that button brings it out and a second tap puts it away. No document, no bar.

Flowchart editor

A full-window sheet for drawing a Mermaid flowchart instead of typing it: a canvas on the left, the Mermaid text on the right, each following the other. Open it from the insert row or from the flowchart button on a diagram already in the page. Nothing is written until Save. See Editing.

Footnote

A [^name] reference in the text with its definition collected at the foot of the page, each carrying a link back to where it was cited.

Format bar

The small bar that appears over words you highlight: copy, highlight and annotate for the words on any page, and on an unlocked one bold, italic, strikethrough, code and link in front of those, then text, a bigger or smaller heading, and quote for the whole block. A button with nowhere to go grays out. What it holds follows the padlock, because marking a passage up needs no block opened for typing. See Editing.

Formula line

A commented line under a table saying how one or more of its cells get their values — <!-- TBLFM: @>$4=sum(@2..@-1) --> — in the syntax org-mode uses. Leaftext keeps every cell it names right as the rows around them change, marks each one with a thin bar on its leading edge, and holds a row whose cells are all kept that way out of a sort. It is an ordinary HTML comment, so a file carrying one stays a plain Markdown file. Right-clicking a cell writes one without typing it. See Editing.

Frontmatter

A leading --- … --- block of metadata at the top of a file. Leaftext renders it as a table above the document, drawing each field as the thing it is — a checkbox as a checkbox, a list as items — and keeping the case the key was written in. Only the first block counts; a later --- is a horizontal rule. Nesting is not part of it: an indented key: value is refused rather than read as a field of its own. See Rendering.

GFM

GitHub Flavored Markdown — the tables, task lists, strikethrough and autolinks that sit on top of CommonMark.

GitHub sync

Pointing a vault at a GitHub repository and pushing to it. Leaftext never holds a token — it runs the git already on your machine. Sync commits, rebases onto GitHub only when GitHub holds something new, and pushes; it starts on a press unless that vault has automatic sync turned on. See Library.

Glossary

The shared GLOSSARY.md this page is one of. Leaftext finds it by walking up from the open document, matches its terms in every document it draws as prose, data, a book or an office file, and links them for you — so one file defines the words for a whole set of documents. Resting on a term draws its entry in the link hint; clicking one opens it in a bottom sheet. See Navigation.

Graph size

How much of your vault the graph view draws: Focus (the open document and its direct links), Medium, Large, or Everything. A labeled dropdown in the tray behind the floating toolbar, there only while the map is up; hover the handle above the graph button, or tap the graph button on a touchscreen, to bring it out. See Settings.

Graph view

A force-directed map of how your documents link to each other. Each node is a document or a web address; each edge is a link that resolves, with an arrowhead at the document being linked to. Click a node to open that document and stay on the map, which redraws around it and flies to its node; drag to reposition, scroll to zoom. It needs a document open — not a vault. See Library.

Grove

Your record of using Leaftext: thirteen Growth areas for different kinds of activity and one overall Grove level. It stays on your computer and can be turned off. Open it from the Grove pill. See Your Grove.

Grove level

The level shared by everything you do in Leaftext. XP from every Growth area fills its bar; when the bar is full, hold it to take the next level and receive Seeds. See Your Grove.

Grove pill

The button at the foot of the library pane showing your Grove level. Press it to open the Grove over the document you are reading. See Your Grove.

Growth area

One of thirteen kinds of activity the Grove counts, such as reading, writing or making links. Each earns its own XP and levels up as its bar fills; the same XP fills the overall Grove level. See Your Grove.

Home screen

What you see with no document open: Choose file, New document, and your recent files — with your favorites in a column beside them once there are any. Standing in a vault, the screen is that vault's: both lists are its own, and the small word above the headline is its name. Closing the last tab returns you here, and so does clicking the leaf mark.

Icon pack

A whole set of the drawings the app's controls wear. Seven ship — Leaftext's own plus Feather, Lucide, Tabler, Remix Icon, Phosphor and Heroicons — and every theme family wears one, so switching family changes the drawings along with the colors. There is nothing to pick separately. A control an outside pack has no drawing for keeps Leaftext's own. See Themes → Icons.

Image box

What the image button in the insert row opens: Choose file, or a field for a web address. A picked file is never copied anywhere — the picture stays where you keep it, and the document records where that is.

INI file

An .ini file. Leaftext reads it as a page of [section] headings with their keys and values under each, every key drawn with the spelling it was written with, and the values, the key names and the section headings all ready to be typed into. See Rendering.

Inline editing

Editing the rendered page itself: click into a sentence and type, Enter to split a block, Backspace at the start to merge it upward, click a checkbox to tick it. Every change is spliced back into the exact bytes it came from. See Editing.

Inline HTML

Raw HTML written in your Markdown. Leaftext keeps a curated set of safe tags — <kbd>, <mark>, <sub>, <abbr>, definition lists, align and id attributes — and strips the rest, keeping the inner text. <script>, event handlers and javascript: URLs never survive.

Insert row

The row of block kinds that fans out when you press the plus in the block gutter: text, heading, list, quote, code block, table, image, flowchart, divider. The first four open an empty block rather than writing one — nothing reaches the file until your first keystroke.

Landmarks

Your highest number of words read and documents opened in a single day, shown beside today's counts in the Grove. See Your Grove.

Leaf button

A Leaftext addition to Markdown: wrap a whole link in braces and it renders as a button. {[Label](url)} is a ghost button, {{…}} an outline one, {{{…}}} filled.

Leaf mark

The leaf at the left of the app bar. Click it to return to the home screen. It never folds into the overflow menu.

Library pane

The pane down the left side: a vault switcher, a breadcrumb, and the file tree. Vault-wide search is the find bar's All files scope. Toggle the pane with the panel button in the app bar. See Library.

Library sheet

What the library pane becomes on a window too narrow to hold both it and a readable page: a full-width sheet over the document, dismissed by picking something. It is a description of the current window, not a saved preference.

The tooltip that names what a link is — glossary term, in-page jump, another document, external site, email — and shows the address it was written with. On a link to another document it also draws that document's opening and how many lines it is; on a glossary term it draws the entry itself, at the words' own size, capped and faded where the entry runs long. Mouse only. See Navigation.

The right-click menu on a link in a document you are reading: Open, Open in new page, Copy link, Copy link text, Reveal file, Copy path. Open says where it is sending you when that is out of Leaftext — Open in browser on an outside link, Open in another app on a file Leaftext does not read, Open in your mail app on an email address. The three that need a document in this app to act on are left out on an outside link and on an in-page jump. Ctrl-click (Cmd on macOS) or a middle click is the same as Open in new page — the linked document opens as a tab behind the one you are reading, so you keep your place. See Navigation.

Live reload

Leaftext noticing a file changed on disk and re-rendering it without losing your place. It watches the folder rather than the file, so atomic-save editors work, and it recognizes its own saves so a save never bounces the view. A document with unsaved edits is never clobbered.

Loading page

The shape of the page that is arriving, shown over the reader while a document or a view is being built — a heading bar and the paragraph bars under it, on an opaque surface, so the document being replaced is not left showing through as though it were still the answer. It covers opening a file, Back and Forward, switching tabs, and toggling the code view. A safety timeout lowers it even if a response never arrives. The minimap rail keeps a spinner of its own.

Math

TeX between $…$ for inline math and $$…$$ for a displayed block, rendered offline.

Mention

An @name in your text, highlighted; inside a Git repository it links to the person or team on GitHub. #1 and owner/repo#3 link to issues and pull requests the same way. Bare commit hashes are deliberately not linked.

Mermaid diagram

A mermaid fenced code block, drawn as a diagram by the bundled Mermaid runtime — fully offline, in your theme's own colors and the face it reads documents in. Drag the drawing to move it inside its cell, and zoom with Ctrl and the wheel or the buttons in its corner, where a button beside them saves the diagram as its own Markdown file, picture or PDF. On an unlocked page two more buttons appear: one opens its text to edit, the other the flowchart editor.

Minimap

The slim rail down the right edge of the reading view. It is a real, scaled clone of the page — actual text, not abstract bars — so you can recognize a section by its shape. Click to jump, drag the viewport indicator to scroll, or turn the wheel over it to scroll the page as if the pointer were on it. See Minimap.

Missing-image mark

The single glyph, drawn in the page's own ink, that stands where a picture Leaftext cannot find would be. Its alt text shows on hover, and it looks the same on both platforms. A file that later appears is picked up by the next refresh.

Monaco

The editor Visual Studio Code is built on, compiled into Leaftext and used for the code view. It brings selection, undo, clipboard, IME and the typing help widgets, and it keeps a multi-megabyte file responsive by drawing only the lines on screen.

New document

A blank page in a new tab, started with the + in the app bar or on the home screen. It opens with the reading view's padlock off and the caret ready, is called Untitled until its first save, and has no file until then.

Notarization

Apple's paid check that lets macOS vouch for an app. Leaftext is free and not enrolled, so macOS refuses its first launch. Nothing was scanned and nothing was found — let it through once and it opens normally forever after. See Installation.

Outline

The open document's headings, listed in the library pane in place of the file list, the page's own title first and every section indented under it, labeled with how many headings are in it. The heading you are reading is lit; click a row to jump to it. It is the document's structure as text, where the minimap is a picture of it.

Overflow menu

The chevron menu the app bar's buttons fold into as the tab strip fills, or as the bar itself runs wider than the window — trailing actions first, then Back and Forward, then the window controls. Both are watched, so a narrow window with nothing open keeps its own close, minimize and maximize on the bar; an empty strip has nothing to run out of. Tabs are never squeezed to make room. The leaf mark and the library pane button never fold. What the menu reads in is its own order, with the window controls at the foot: see When the bar runs out of room.

Padlock

The lock in the tray behind the floating toolbar that says whether you can type into the view you are in. There are two — one for the reading view, one for the code view — and they are independent, so unlocking the page you read does not open the file's own text. Both start locked and both are remembered across restarts; a new document opens with the reading view's turned off for you. Checkboxes toggle either way, and so do copy, highlight and annotate on the format bar.

Pager

The Previous / Next bar at the foot of a document, for reading a folder in order. It appears where folders are connected by README.md files, and follows the same depth-first walk the docs site uses. On by default; switch it off in Settings.

Pinned headings

In the Markdown code view, the headings you are reading under stay at the top edge as you scroll — the trail down to where you are, five rows at most. Each row is the real source line, and clicking it jumps there.

Plain text file

A .txt file. Leaftext draws it as one block kept exactly as typed — every space and every line break, nothing reflowed and nothing parsed. See Rendering.

Random

The last entry in the theme picker. Not a palette but a preference: it draws a fresh theme family at each launch, every family once before any repeats, and the rotation survives restarts.

Reading view

The rendered document — the view Leaftext is for. Its two companions on the floating toolbar are the code view and the graph view.

Recent files

The files you opened most recently, listed on the home screen beside your favorites; the last 50 are kept. Inside a vault the list is that vault's own files, and outside every vault it is all of them grouped by vault. Missing files drop off by themselves, and two spellings of one path collapse to a single entry.

Reduce Motion

Your system's accessibility setting for cutting animation, which Leaftext follows. Turn it on and nothing in the app slides, rises or fades — sheets, the library pane, menus, the find bar, the tab strip, anything that folds open and a document opening all arrive in place, and a control you point at takes its highlight in one frame instead of over a beat. Spinners keep turning more slowly, a wide table's edge marks stay, and a loading placeholder stays dim, because stopping any of the three would say something untrue. There is no control for it in the app. See Settings.

Relational table

An ordinary Markdown table with a temporary RDB view over it: cards, a board, a list, sorting, filtering and relations to rows in another table. The table stays as plain Markdown, and only an optional description comment is written. See Relational tables.

Save

Writing the buffer to your file, always explicitly. A green Save button (and Ctrl+S / Cmd+S) appears the moment the buffer differs from the file, and the tab shows an unsaved marker. There is no autosave — the one exception is ticking a checkbox, which saves on the spot. A new document is asked where to go on its first save.

Scroll anchor

How Leaftext remembers a reading position: the nearest heading above the top edge, the block within that section, and a pixel offset. It survives a rerender, so images, diagrams and the pager settling in cannot pull you away from the line you were reading.

Seeds

What a Grove level gives you when you take it. Each level gives the same number, whichever Growth area earned the XP. Spend seeds to grow things in the Grove's one tree, where each waits for a Grove level; spent seeds do not come back. See Your Grove.

Settings

A plain JSON file on your machine, not a panel: there is nowhere to open. Every control stands where it applies — the palette at the foot of the library pane for theme and appearance, the graph view's own toolbar for graph size — and each one saves the moment you use it. See Settings.

Sheet

A panel that slides up from the bottom edge over the whole window, dimming the page behind it and standing until you dismiss it: the glossary, the theme picker, the start screen's file list, and the flowchart editor with the shape picker inside it. Drag its top edge down to put it away. It wears the same dot grain as the app bar, tiled from its own top edge because it moves, and while one is up a first-launch bubble steps aside.

Single window

One Leaftext, however many times you launch it. Opening a file from Explorer or Finder while it is running adds a tab to the window you already have and brings it to the front.

Skipped folders

The two things browsing leaves out, now that every other folder is listed: the operating system's own folders at the top of a drive, and a shortcut pointing at nothing. Search and the graph also refuse a shortcut, which can point back above itself and make their walk run forever.

Slug

The anchor id made from a heading — Bottom Sheet becomes #bottom-sheet. Headings get one automatically, which is what makes the outline, in-page links and glossary links land.

Source file

A script or configuration file — TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS, shell, TOML, Rust, Python, SQL, GraphQL, a diff, a dotenv file, a Dockerfile and the rest. Leaftext draws one as its file name over a single highlighted block. It opens when you choose it or follow a link to it, and stays out of the library pane, vault search, the graph and the pager, so a folder of code does not become a library of it. See Rendering.

Speed Reader

A way of reading, toggled from the tray behind the floating toolbar: the page dims back and bold anchors mark the start of each word, so your eye follows the path down instead of hunting for it. An HTML file drawn in its own frame is left as its author wrote it, and the switch is not offered there. See Settings.

Sync button

The button that appears at the end of a vault's breadcrumb whenever there is work that has not reached GitHub, carrying the count. Absent when there is nothing to send. See GitHub sync.

Syntax highlighting

Coloring a code block — and the whole code view — in the active theme's own colors, so source looks like part of the app rather than a foreign editor dropped into it.

Tab

One open document or web page, with its own Back and Forward history, its own scroll position, and — for a document — its own edit buffer. Drag tabs to reorder them; Ctrl+W / Cmd+W closes one.

Tag

A subject written as #work or #work/reports in a Markdown note's prose or tags field. Pressing one searches the active vault; a parent includes its children. See Tags.

Task list

A checkbox list — - [ ] and - [x]. The boxes are live: click one to tick it and it saves on the spot, even with editing locked. A table cell whose whole content is [ ] or [x] becomes a checkbox too.

TEI

The XML markup scholarly editions, archives and field records are written in. Leaftext gives it its own reader — titles, front matter as a collapsed section, nested divisions, verse as quoted stanzas, endnotes as footnotes. See Rendering.

Theme family

A palette plus its type and its icon pack — eleven ship: Amaranth, Arabica, Bloodleaf, Fern, Ginger, GitHub, Goldenrod, Halcyon, Nightshade, Pippin and Sage. Each has a light and a dark variant, chosen by appearance. Its font is fetched from Google Fonts the first time you pick it. See Themes.

Theme picker

The bottom sheet the palette button at the foot of the library pane opens. Every family is a card wearing its own colors and type, with the appearance control at the top and Random at the end.

Token contract

The set of --lt-* color and type names every theme family must fill. It is checked when the theme CSS is compiled at launch, so a theme missing one fails loudly instead of rendering with broken fallback colors.

Typing help

Suggestions while you write in the code view, answered from your own notes: [[ lists them, [[Note# lists that note's headings, ](# lists the open document's anchors, hovering a wikilink previews it, and a broken link gets a wavy underline. The wand in the tray behind the floating toolbar turns it off.

Undo

Stepping back through inline edits, one at a time. An Undo button sits beside Save whenever there is a step to take back. A successful save clears the history, so undo never walks you below saved text. Ctrl+Z also answers a file you just deleted, while the message offering it back is still on screen — that one comes out of the Recycle Bin rather than out of the document.

Unsaved marker

The dot beside a tab's name while its buffer differs from the file. It shares the corner with the close button, so a tab never changes size as the pointer crosses it.

Untitled

What a new document is called before its first save — Untitled 2 and so on when one is already open. The first save asks where to put it, and the tab takes the real name.

Update bell

The bell in the app bar, there only when there is news: a spinning ring while the new version downloads, a green dot once a restart would install it. Clicking it opens one button — Restart to update. A check that found nothing, could not reach GitHub, was rate-limited, or found a release with no file this copy can install yet says nothing at all, because there is nothing you could do about any of it. See Installation.

Vault

A folder you have told Leaftext to treat as a library root. It is what search and GitHub sync work over, and what makes the graph view bigger. Nothing is written into your folder — a vault is a row in Leaftext's own database. See Library.

Vault introduction

A short box at the top of the library pane's file list, shown once to a reader who has never made a vault: what a vault is, what it buys, and a button that picks the folder. Not a bubble — it stands until the thing is done rather than going the moment you point at it. Retired by picking a folder or by opening the vault switcher. See Library.

Name and content search across the active vault. Name matches rank first, content matches by how often the terms appear, with snippets; top 50. There is no index on disk — the text is read once and held in memory, so nothing can go stale against your files. With no vault the box is hidden rather than left to return nothing.

Vault switcher

The button at the left of the breadcrumb — a box, or a cloud once the vault syncs. A mouse arriving on it opens the list and a press holds it open; touch and pen open it on the press. It lists your vaults, offers New vault…, and opens each one's settings for renaming, repointing, removing, or connecting it to GitHub.

Viewport indicator

The box on the minimap marking the part of the document you can currently see. Drag it to scroll; the point you grabbed stays under the cursor.

Web address node

An http or https link drawn in the graph view as a ring with a dot in it, labeled by its domain. Two documents citing one page share a single node. Clicking one opens your browser and leaves the map up.

Web tab

A tab showing a live web page instead of a document. Type an address or a search into a new tab to open one; it takes its name from the page, and Back, Forward and Refresh drive the page. See Navigation.

A [[Note name]] link, matched to a document by its filename or by one of its aliases. Typing help completes them, previews them on hover, and underlines the ones that answer to nothing. In the graph view they resolve across the whole vault.

XML reader

How Leaftext reads any .xml file that is not TEI: from the shape of the tree rather than a schema. Elements holding elements become sections, elements holding values become aligned fields, repeated sibling records become a table, and tag names are read as words — so a sitemap, a feed or a config file reads as a page instead of tags. See Rendering.

XP

Points earned for things you do in Leaftext, such as reading words, reaching a picture page or making a link. Each point fills the bar of the Growth area that paid it and the bar of your overall Grove level. See Your Grove.