Pages & Editor

Bookmarks and History

Inklings keeps two kinds of history: the event log, which records every mutation automatically, and bookmarks, which are named waypoints you create deliberately to mark moments that matter. Together, they give you both a continuous audit trail and a curated set of anchor points in your workspace’s timeline.

Bookmarks

A bookmark is a named timestamp in your workspace. It marks a moment — “before the Sundering plotline rewrite,” “after Captain Vex’s backstory was finalized” — without requiring you to remember exactly when you made those changes.

Bookmarks survive history compression. The event log compacts older entries beyond the retention window, but bookmarks are never auto-pruned. If you marked a moment, it stays marked.

Create a bookmark

Open the bookmarks panel or access it via the History section of the sidebar.
Click Create bookmark.
Enter a name. Names must be unique within the workspace — two bookmarks cannot share the same name.
Optionally, add a description to give context to future-you.
Confirm.

The bookmark is created with the current timestamp. Its name can be up to 200 characters; empty or whitespace-only names are rejected.

List bookmarks

The bookmarks list shows all bookmarks in your workspace ordered oldest-first. Each entry shows the name, description (if any), and the timestamp it was created.

Delete a bookmark

Select a bookmark and choose Delete. The bookmark is removed immediately. This doesn’t delete any page content — bookmarks are metadata about time, not about specific pages.

Event log

The event log is an automatic, continuous record of every meaningful mutation in your workspace. You don’t configure it or maintain it — it runs in the background, recording what changed and when.

The event log records:

Page creation, updates, renames, moves, and deletions
Block content saves (when you type and the editor auto-saves)
Tag assignments and removals
Attachment uploads
Type and property assignments

Browse a page’s history

Open any page and view its page detail panel. The Timeline section shows that page’s history, ordered newest-first — the most recent change at the top.

Each timeline entry is one of two types:

Structural events — page-level mutations: renames, type changes, tag assignments, moves
Content changes — editor saves that recorded new block content

For rename events, the timeline shows both the before and after values: Renamed from "Old Name" to "New Name".

Browse the workspace timeline

The workspace-wide timeline shows events across all pages within a time range. This is useful for answering “what did I change in the last week?” without opening pages one by one.

Query the timeline from the History panel, specifying a start and end time. Events are returned oldest-first within the range.

History retention

The event log retains events for 90 days by default. Events older than the retention window are automatically compacted by a background task.

You can adjust the retention window in Settings under History. The minimum is 7 days; the maximum is 3650 days (10 years). Values outside this range are clamped silently to the valid bounds.