diff --git a/wowchemy/layouts/index.json b/wowchemy/layouts/index.json
index 99627fb0..f80568d2 100644
--- a/wowchemy/layouts/index.json
+++ b/wowchemy/layouts/index.json
@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@
     {{- end -}}
 
     {{- /* Add page to index. */ -}}
-    {{- $index = $index | append (dict "objectID" .File.UniqueID "date" .Date.UTC.Unix "publishdate" .PublishDate "lastmod" .Lastmod.UTC.Unix "expirydate" .ExpiryDate.UTC.Unix "lang" .Lang "permalink" $permalink "relpermalink" $rel_permalink "title" $title "summary" (plainify $desc | htmlUnescape) "content" (.Plain | htmlUnescape | truncate 5000) "authors" $authors "kind" .Kind "type" .Type "section" .Section "tags" .Params.Tags "categories" .Params.Categories) -}}
-
+    {{/* Exclude virtual pages which aren't backed by a file */}}
+    {{ if .File }}
+      {{- $index = $index | append (dict "objectID" .File.UniqueID "date" .Date.UTC.Unix "publishdate" .PublishDate "lastmod" .Lastmod.UTC.Unix "expirydate" .ExpiryDate.UTC.Unix "lang" .Lang "permalink" $permalink "relpermalink" $rel_permalink "title" $title "summary" (plainify $desc | htmlUnescape) "content" (.Plain | htmlUnescape | truncate 5000) "authors" $authors "kind" .Kind "type" .Type "section" .Section "tags" .Params.Tags "categories" .Params.Categories) -}}
+    {{ end }}
   {{- end -}}
 {{- end -}}
 
diff --git a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_layout.html b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_layout.html
index fe5e9d30..cfe43485 100644
--- a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_layout.html
+++ b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_layout.html
@@ -59,10 +59,25 @@
         {{end}}
 
         <div class="docs-article-container">
-          <h1>{{ .Title }}</h1>
+          {{/* Fallback to filename as title (useful for default Obsidian note structure) */}}
+          <h1>{{ cond (ne .File nil) (.Title | default (title .File.ContentBaseName)) .Title }}</h1>
 
           <div class="article-style">
+
+            {{/* Only auto-list page children if _index has no content (or if it isn't a .File?) */}}
+            {{ if and (not .Content) (gt (len $.Page.Pages) 0) }}
+            <ul class="list-unstyled">
+              {{ range $.Page.Pages }}
+              <li>
+                <h5><a href="{{.RelPermalink}}">{{.LinkTitle | default (title .File.TranslationBaseName) }}</a></h5>
+                {{if .Summary}}<p>{{.Summary | plainify | emojify}}</p>{{end}}
+              </li>
+              {{end}}
+            </ul>
+            {{end}}
+
             {{ .Content }}
+
           </div>
 
           {{ partial "tags.html" . }}
diff --git a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_menu.html b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_menu.html
index 9308f512..3e5f58f8 100644
--- a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_menu.html
+++ b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/book_menu.html
@@ -35,10 +35,10 @@
 
     {{ if $first }}
       <ul class="nav docs-sidenav">
-        <li class="{{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }}active{{ end }}"><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle | default .Title }}</a></li>
+        <li class="{{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }}active{{ end }}"><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle }}</a></li>
     {{else}}
       <div class="docs-toc-item">
-        <a class="docs-toc-link {{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }} active{{ end }}" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle | default .Title }}</a>
+        <a class="docs-toc-link {{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }} active{{ end }}" href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle }}</a>
     {{end}}
 
     {{- $page_count := (add (len .Pages) (len .Sections)) -}}
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
 
   {{- else -}}
     {{- if not .Params.Hidden -}}
-      <li class="{{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }}active{{ end }}"><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle | default .Title }}</a></li>
+      <li class="{{ if and .File $current_node.File | and (eq .File.UniqueID $current_node.File.UniqueID) }}active{{ end }}"><a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}">{{ safeHTML $icon }}{{ .LinkTitle | default (title .File.ContentBaseName) }}</a></li>
     {{- end -}}
   {{ end -}}
 {{- end -}}
diff --git a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/page_edit.html b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/page_edit.html
index f46c9919..b435f6d0 100644
--- a/wowchemy/layouts/partials/page_edit.html
+++ b/wowchemy/layouts/partials/page_edit.html
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 {{/* Add link to let visitors edit the page on GitHub. */}}
-{{ if .Params.editable | and site.Params.features.repository.url }}
+{{/* Perform short-circuit check that page is backed by a file. */}}
+{{ if and .File .Params.editable | and site.Params.features.repository.url }}
 {{/* Get language subfolder for multilingual sites. */}}
 {{/* Limitations: the subfolder param, `<LANG>.contentDir`, is unexposed in the Hugo `site` API so we attempt to workaround this issue. */}}
 {{ $content_dir := "content" }}
diff --git a/wowchemy/layouts/shortcodes/list_children.html b/wowchemy/layouts/shortcodes/list_children.html
index 1cc8f9a6..e6cfc932 100644
--- a/wowchemy/layouts/shortcodes/list_children.html
+++ b/wowchemy/layouts/shortcodes/list_children.html
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
   <ul class="list-unstyled">
     {{ range $.Page.Pages }}
       <li>
-        <h5><a href="{{.RelPermalink}}">{{.LinkTitle}}</a></h5>
+        {{/* Fallback to filename as title (useful for default Obsidian note structure) */}}
+        <h5><a href="{{.RelPermalink}}">{{ .LinkTitle | default (title .File.TranslationBaseName) }}</a></h5>
         {{if $show_summary | and .Summary}}<p>{{.Summary | plainify | emojify}}</p>{{end}}
       </li>
     {{end}}