Navigation Sessions
What is a session?
A session is a recorded thread of navigation. When you work in Relinkia — opening notes, following links, exploring a line of thinking — the system captures where you went and why you moved from one note to the next.
Most tools record what you opened. Relinkia records why you moved — the reasons that drove you from one note to another. That context is what makes it possible to truly resume a session, not just reopen a tab.
A session is not a browser history. It is a captured line of reasoning — a trail of intention that you can follow back into at any point.
The anchor note and the trail
Every session begins with an anchor note — the starting point that gave the session its direction. From the anchor, you may have followed several paths: a link here, a concept there, a connection suggestion that led somewhere unexpected.
The trail records this path in order, along with any navigation reason you noted at each step. If you paused to write “following up on the Kahneman connection” before jumping to a new note, that intention is preserved.
Example trail
Attention Economics
Starting point for today's research
Cognitive Load
Following the connection to overload
Decision Fatigue
Exploring the downstream effects
(half-formed idea)
Stopped here — wanted to capture before losing it
Resuming a session
Sessions appear on your dashboard. Opening a past session returns you to the exact note where you stopped — with the full trail visible alongside it. You can see not just where you were, but how you got there and what you were thinking at each step.
This is what makes it possible to pick up a line of thinking days or weeks later without losing the thread. You don't have to reconstruct your reasoning — it's already there.
You can also start a new session from within an old one. If revisiting a trail sparks a new line of thinking, let it branch. Both threads are preserved.