@Karthikk
Oh I didn’t realize that. This could be the reason for all those new portals I thought of as randomly occuring. I certainly tried moving rems to solve this…
So how can I remove them now?
@Badjer
For me it’s the other way around. Backspace doesn’t do anything, while deleting with the dots is “working”. The portal just pops up again immediately.
I’ve made a .gif to show what is happening, maybe that makes it a bit more clear.
Ok, now I get what’s going on.
The portals that you @Marcus_Weber are referring to are automatic search portals created for rems. These are visible when you zoom into a rem (by clicking on the bullet point)
You will see that there are four types of automatic portals that might be seen depending on a few conditions.
The types are :
Once the criteria for their invoke has been met, they are automatically created and populated. Even if you close them they will keep reappearing, as they have content inside to show. This is one of the superpowers of a networked note-taking tool, the ability to automatically have backlinks to your text.
hah, they are just three dots - a common form to denote a menu. Calling them ellipses could be a little misleading 
Thanks for the information @Karthikk 
So this means, that I would have to remake all affected rems in order to get my queue clean again?
Nope, these search portal won’t affect your queues, unless you turn them into normal portals. Just keep them as they are and you should be fine.
In case you have turned a lot of them into normal portals, you might wanna just close those portals (delete using menu or select and backspace) .
Nevertheless these portals should only affect document level queues, your global queue will never consider these portals. RemNote identifies them all as being the same cards and hence prevents duplication of efforts while practising.
They are called Meatballs Menu, obviously. 
@Karthikk you are fast 
I only use document level queues at the moment (exam prep). Is there any other tactic I could use in that case, since the search portals are occuring in my document queue?
Love this, thanks for sharing 
I used to love the hamburger menu style that was followed for the zoomed-in rems earlier 
do you remember those days?
hmmm, can you confirm if these automatic search portals are occuring in your document queue and not the normal portals(after turning them manually?)
Also @hannesfrank could you confirm this behaviour? I am not a heavy SRS user, so I might be a little wrong here. Do the cards appearing in these backlink tracking search portals (at the bottom of the zoomed-in state) get added to document queues?
Yes, I can confirm that this top level rem has two flashcards:
Actually 3 since one has 2 directions.
Ok, so for example I just started my document queue for “stochastik” and the first question that appeared was this:
“GdhM” questions should not be there. Going to the question’s rem doesn’t even have a portal in this particular case:
The highest level portal seems to be at the bottom of the “Algebra” document.
I think I kind of messed up a lot here, lol 
I think I can help you sort it out soon if we can jump on an audio call in the discord server. Would you be comfortable with that? Here’s the link to that if you are interested.
Looks like these cards show up in the document queue only if the search portals are open.
Automatic Search portals seem to have two different states :
Open state is when we click on a search portal and it comes into the body of the rem and is expanded automatically as well.
Closed state is when we click on the X mark and it goes back to the bottom of the rem’s zoomed-in state.
Expanded/ collapsed works when the search portal is opened.
How do these states affect our workflows?
@Marcus_Weber so if you have unwanted cards showing up, because they are seen in those automatic search portals - you just have to keep those portals closed by clicking on the big X on the right end of the search portal.
I’ve joined the server now, which channel should I go to?
In the chat room category, you might find an audio and text channel called community-chatter. Drop in and I will be there in a minute
Alright, the issue is now solved. Thanks again @Karthikk for the great help.
In case someone with a similar problem finds this, the solution was quite simple.
As a brief summary:
To fix it, the referenced document B was newly created as e.g. B_new and the content of B was transfered to B_new by cut & paste. Now B was deleted and after that the portals could be successfully removed.
Portals gone, queue clean, everything is fine again 
To clarify the terminology even more: The thing you are calling “closed search portal” is a Search Portal Stub (not to be confused with the completely independent #Stub tag of course but named after the same principle of not being filled with content yet).
In that sense a search portal stub is not a search portal (yet) or even a rem for that matter and therefore does not add cards to a queue or can be shown by expanding all children of a rem (in a “zoomed out state”).
A search portal stub is just a little helper button shown below a page (= “zoomed in rem”) with backlinks that lets you comfortably add a search portal with those backlinks to the page which you could also create manually just as easily.
Ah sorry
Was just using its name
I will type out “the 3 dots” to make easier then 
Love the clarity, thanks man!
