# Add wiki-style links to existing notes
**URL:** https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817
**Category:** How To
**Created:** [July 24, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817 "2021-07-24T09:47:37Z")
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### Author:  [@rainshoots](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rainshoots)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2021, 9:47am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817/1 "2021-07-24T09:47:37Z")
`org-roam` lets you define `:ROAM_ALIASES:` that can be used as prefabricated links to your existing notes. But what if we’d like to add wiki-style notes to existing notes that uses a generic description term such as:
```auto
This is a project to implement the Zettelkasten Method to my own note-taking system, based on Söken Ahren's excellent [[id:c2523143-24d0-4600-92ff-12c599a89a3a][introduction]] to how and why it works. [fn:fa514b4cb667f1e: See cite:ahrensHowTakeSmart2017]
```
_Linked to file_:
```auto
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: c2523143-24d0-4600-92ff-12c599a89a3a
:ROAM_REFS: cite:ahrensHowTakeSmart2017
:ROAM_ALIASES: "How to take Smart Notes"
:END:
#+title: How to take smart notes: one simple technique to boost writing, learning and thinking--for students, academics and nonfiction book writers
#+filetags: WORKFLOW reading learning efficiency
```
`org-roam-node-insert` can only insert a link to your note with your predefined `ROAM_ALIAS` as its description - in this case, “How to take Smart Notes”.
Clicking on the reference link, `cite:ahrensHowTakeSmart2017` doesn’t bring me to my literature note either.
To get this link `[[id:c2523143-24d0-4600-92ff-12c599a89a3a][introduction]]`, I somehow have to `org-roam-node-find` to the specific file, then do `org-store-link` on its file-level property id, then `org-insert-link` back at the position where the link is needed, which is somewhat tedious.
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### Author:  [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2021, 2:19pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817/2 "2021-07-24T14:19:35Z")
Sorry it’s not clear what you would like to.
What is your question?
Is this what you would like to do?
- Type “introduction”
- Select the text (mark the region)
- Call org-roam-node-insert to insert a node
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### Author:  [@rainshoots](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rainshoots)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2021, 3:35pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817/3 "2021-07-24T15:35:59Z")
Yes, but that just creates a new note with the title “introduction” for me. I would like “introduction” to link to an existing note with the id `c2523143-24d0-4600-92ff-12c599a89a3a`.
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### Author:  [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817/4 "2021-07-24T17:49:16Z")
It works as you would like on my end.
What’s your completion framework (helm, ivy, etc. etc.).
My guess is that you need to choose an existing note by pressing TAB, instead of just typing the title only.
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### Author:  [@rainshoots](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/rainshoots)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2021, 3:10am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-wiki-style-links-to-existing-notes/1817/5 "2021-07-25T03:10:18Z")
Oh, silly me. The choices for existing notes have been _filtered off_ by the alien keyword.
I use helm, by the way. Thanks for the help.