Chapters, moving and deleting
Wiki Contents groups every page you are working on into chapters, and marks what just arrived, what changed and what clashed. It fills itself as your assistant files pages, so this is about the times you want to take it over by hand.
The list fills itself: each page your assistant sends is filed under one of the chapters you already have. What follows is what to do when that is not the answer you wanted.
Reading the list
Every page carries a coloured dot, and the dot is memory: how much of that page is yours. It has nothing to do with the marks in the next section, which are about what has happened to the page lately.
Creating a page yourself
New asks for a title and a chapter. Type the chapter as a path with / between levels, so Cloud/Networking puts the page in Networking inside Cloud. Leave it empty and the page goes to Uncategorized, which you can move it out of later.
Chapters go two levels deep, with the page itself as the third. That is a deliberate ceiling: a deeper tree is harder for you to scan and harder for your assistant to file into consistently.
You can also create an empty chapter and add pages to it later, and delete a chapter again while it is still empty. Uncategorized is not a chapter in that sense, it is where pages with no chapter at all are shown, but you can drag pages out of it and into a real one.
Moving things
On a desktop, drag a page to reorder it, or drop it onto a chapter to move it there, and drag a chapter to reorder it among its siblings.
Dragging is desktop only. On a phone or tablet, press and hold a page to reveal its delete button; there is no touch gesture for moving one. The way to reorganise from a phone is to ask your assistant, which can move pages for you and sends the change to your inbox like any other.
Deleting
Deleting a page moves it to the Trash, where it stays recoverable for 30 days. There is no confirmation step, and that is on purpose: the Trash is the safety net a confirmation used to be. Undo, history and the Trash explains how to get a page back.
Deleting an empty chapter removes nothing but the chapter.
Flagged: what has happened lately
Flagged, at the top of the list, is where you catch up. It collects everything the app wants to tell you about, and All puts the full list back.
Two of those marks are news, and both clear the moment you open the page:
- New, for a page that arrived and has not been opened yet.
- Updated, for an existing page an import has changed since you last opened it.
The third kind is a flag. Unlike the other two it is asking you for a decision rather than making one, and there are three of them:
- Possible duplicate, when a page has been written into from more than one conversation and may now be covering two things.
- Unclassified, when the material arrived with no chapter at all.
- Conflict, when the same page was edited on two devices before they synced. Eigma keeps both: the losing version is saved beside the original as a flagged copy rather than being discarded.
Flags never block anything. They are a note in the margin, not a queue you must clear. Deal with them when you feel like it, or dismiss one you have looked at and decided about.
What protects you from bad filing is not the flags, it is that nothing reaches your wiki unseen. Every change arrives in the inbox with a diff of what it would do, and you accept it or you do not. When your assistant sends back a page it has rewritten, accepting replaces the text rather than appending to it, and the version it replaced goes into that page’s local history. Pasting a relay-prompt reply by hand appends instead. Either way the decision, and the way back, are yours.
Why the structure is worth keeping tidy
There is a practical reason beyond neatness. Your assistant decides where a page belongs by looking at the chapter names and page titles you already have. When you paste a relay prompt, that list is sent with it; when your assistant is connected directly, it reads the same outline from Eigma before filing.
So the structure is not decoration, it is most of the instruction. Chapters named for what is in them produce good filing. A chapter called Misc, or three chapters that mean the same thing, produce exactly the filing you would expect from those names, and the fix is to rename and merge them rather than to correct each page afterwards.
Keeping that list short enough to be read at a glance is also why a volume is capped at 500 items. See Volumes and the bookshelf.