diff --git a/src/components/RevealManager.tsx b/src/components/RevealManager.tsx
index 496ed5a..ad8ecea 100644
--- a/src/components/RevealManager.tsx
+++ b/src/components/RevealManager.tsx
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ export const RevealManager: Component = () => {
     const state = journalStreamState;
     if (!dom || state.myRole !== "gm" || !state.connected) return;
 
-    const normalized = normalizePath(location.pathname);
+    const normalized = normalizePath(decodeURIComponent(location.pathname));
     const data = comp.data;
 
     // Spark tables on this page — matched by suffix on column slug.
diff --git a/src/components/journal/types/link.tsx b/src/components/journal/types/link.tsx
index c1d7238..a2c5f5a 100644
--- a/src/components/journal/types/link.tsx
+++ b/src/components/journal/types/link.tsx
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ function fileNameFromPath(path: string): string {
 
 /** Encode a path, preserving / separators but encoding each segment */
 function encodePath(path: string): string {
-  return path
+  // Decode first in case the path is already URL-encoded (defense-in-depth)
+  return decodeURIComponent(path)
     .split("/")
     .map((seg) => encodeURIComponent(seg))
     .join("/");