From blank page to shipped wiki in under 5 minutes.

A single-page quickstart. Open a page, write something, link it to another page, share with your team. The deeper references (shortcuts, integrations, API) are linked from the sidebar.

Your first page

Sign in, hit + New page. Title at the top, content below. Start typing. That’s the entire flow.

Pages are saved continuously — you’ll never lose a paragraph to a missed Cmd-S. Version history is kept indefinitely on Team and Org plans.

Building the tree

Pages live in a tree. Drag a page to nest it under another. Folders are just pages with sub-pages. There’s no separate “folder” type.

The default is to organise around topics, not date or author. Engineering > RFCs > 042 reads better than “Aino’s notes — May 14”.

Permissions

Set permissions where they make sense, let them inherit down the tree. Default: workspace can read, the relevant team can edit. Override on specific pages if needed.

• Workspace — anyone in your workspace.
• Group — one of your groups (Engineering, Product, etc.).
• Specific people — list of named users.
• Public — share by URL, optionally domain-restricted.

Sharing

Click Share in the top-right of any page. The dialog shows the current effective permissions (including anything inherited from a parent). Add or override here. Guests — people outside your workspace — are free on every plan.

Markdown shortcuts

The editor recognises markdown as you type. ## becomes h2, - [ ] becomes a checklist, > becomes a callout. You don’t need to learn a separate syntax — the markdown you know works.

Slash command

Type / anywhere to bring up the block menu. Type to filter. /code for a code block, /checklist for a checklist, /callout for a callout, /embed for an embed.

Links & backlinks

Type [[ to start an internal link. The autocomplete searches across every page in your workspace as you type. Once linked, both sides know about it — the linked page shows a “Linked from” entry.

Renaming a page rewrites every link to it across the wiki.

Blocks

• Paragraph, heading (H1–H4), quote, callout
• List (bulleted, numbered, checklist)
• Code block with syntax highlighting (80+ languages)
• Table with sortable columns
• Toggle (collapsible section)
• Embed (Figma, Loom, Google Doc, YouTube, OakWiki page)
• File attachment

We don’t do every block type. The list is intentionally short. If something specific is missing, email us.

Keyboard shortcuts

The most-used. Full list in the help menu (?).

Import & export

• Notion — drop a workspace export; tree, formatting, internal links all come across.
• Confluence — space export (XML); tree comes across, attachments transfer.
• Markdown — bulk import a folder of .md files; export anything back to Markdown at any time.
• JSON — full workspace export for backup or programmatic processing.
• HTML — export for printing or for handing off to a stakeholder who lives outside the wiki.

API & webhooks

Read-only page API on Team; read/write on Org. Webhooks for page-created / page-updated / member-added / comment-posted events.

The page content itself is exportable as JSON; re-importable into a new workspace. Round-tripping preserves structure, comments, and history metadata.

Getting help

Email support@oakwiki.com. For now we don’t run a community Slack — we found support quality is higher when conversations stay in writing.