TCAI Wiki

How To Use This

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How to Use This Wiki

Welcome to the TCAI Wiki — TraumaCare AI’s internal knowledge base. It’s a collection of plain-text Markdown pages stored in our shared Google Drive folder. You read and edit it using a free app called Obsidian. This page covers the basics to get you going.

Warning

One hard rule: never put PHI or PII in this wiki.

1. Get set up

  1. Make sure the TCAI-Wiki folder is synced to your computer via Google Drive.
  2. Download and install Obsidian from obsidian.md (free).
  3. Open Obsidian → Open folder as vault → choose the TCAI-Wiki folder.

Note

Keep edits to one person at a time per page — Obsidian and Google Drive both syncing the same file simultaneously can create conflicted copies.

2. Find your way around

  • Home page: open index — it’s the hub, with links to every section (Product, Technical KB, Clinical, Growth & Marketing, Miscellaneous).
  • Folders: the left sidebar mirrors the wiki’s structure; browse it like any file tree.
  • Search: press Cmd+O to jump to any page by name, or use the search icon to full-text search everything.
  • Backlinks: each page shows “what links here” so you can see related pages.
  • Graph view: click the graph icon to see how pages connect visually.

3. Move between pages

Pages link to each other with wikilinks — double square brackets around a page’s name:

[[Mortality Prediction]]

Just click a link to follow it. To show different text than the page name, add a pipe: [[Mortality Prediction|our mortality model]].

4. Create or edit a page

  1. To add a page, right-click a folder → New note, or copy a starter from the templates/ folder (Reference, SOP, or Meeting Note).
  2. Fill in the frontmatter at the top (the part between --- lines): a title, a one-line description, any tags, and the updated date.
  3. Write your content in Markdown — # for headings, - for bullet lists, **bold**, etc.
  4. Link it to at least one related page with a [[wikilink]] so it’s not an orphan.

5. House conventions

  • File names: human-readable Title Case, e.g. Incident Response.md.
  • Folder names: lowercase-with-hyphens, e.g. clinical-ops/.
  • Every page gets frontmatter and at least one link in or out.
  • Use draft: true in the frontmatter for work-in-progress pages.

The full rulebook lives in Working Conventions at the top of the wiki — read it before making bigger changes.

6. Handy tip

Want index to open automatically every time you launch the vault? Install the community plugin “Homepage” (Settings → Community plugins → Browse → Homepage) and set it to index.

TCAI Wiki — edited in Obsidian today, publishable as a website (via Quartz) later. No PHI/PII.