Wormholes create connections between items across your Space, turning your workspace into an interconnected web of linked ideas. Tapping a Wormhole jumps you from one location or item to another (whether that's a different part of the Space, a specific page in a PDF, or another Space entirely).

Creating a Wormhole

Drag the Wormhole icon from the Side Menu onto your Space to create one. Once placed, double tap it to give it a name.

Connecting Wormholes

A Wormhole can be connected to as many other Wormholes as you like. There are two ways to connect them:

1. Draw a line (using your Apple Pencil, start drawing from the circle of one Wormhole and drop it onto the circle of another).

2. Search by name (search for a Wormhole by its name to connect to it).

Once connected, colored lines will appear between Wormholes that are on the same Space. Wormholes connected across different Spaces will not show connection lines. You can hide same-Space lines under Settings → General → Defaults → Wormholes → Wormhole Lines are Hidden.

Navigating with Wormholes

Customizing Wormholes

Double tap any Wormhole to open its edit menu. From here you can:

• Change color (customize the Wormhole's color, which also changes the color of its connection lines).

• Frame Lock (enable Frame Lock to save the current zoom level and framing at that Wormhole. When jumped to, the view will snap to that exact frame. This is particularly useful for creating precise navigation jump points across a large Space).

Use Cases

Mind Mapping & Brainstorming Scatter related ideas around your Space and use Wormholes to draw web-like connections between them, building a visual map of how concepts relate.

Text Extraction Wormholes can be used to extract text passages from PDFs (a convenient tool for studying and research). Here's how:

1. Open a PDF Stack and use the Selection tool to select a passage of text.

2. Hold and drag the selection.

3. Defter Notes automatically creates a Textbox containing the selected text, along with two linked Wormholes (one attached to the Textbox and one placed at the source location in the PDF).

This keeps your extracted notes directly linked back to their origin, making it easy to jump between your notes and the source material. Combined with Frame Lock, you can also set precise zoom levels and frames at each Wormhole, turning your extracted passages into a structured set of bookmarks or outline points. This workflow also works well for flashcard-style studying (extract key passages or definitions, then jump between them to quiz yourself).

Bookmarking & Outlining Place a Wormhole at any section of a PDF to create a quick jump point. Build your own clickable table of contents for long documents, or flag content to revisit later.

Flashcard-Style Study Link a question in one part of your Space to its answer elsewhere, then jump between them to quiz yourself (mimicking the flip of a flashcard). Great for exam prep and self-assessment.