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 If your Jekyll site has a lot of pages, you might want to create navigation for the pages. Instead of hard-coding navigation links, you can programmatically retrieve a list of pages to build the navigation for your site.
 
+Although there's already information about [interacting with data files]({% link _docs/datafiles.md %}) in other Jekyll docs, this tutorial dives into building more robust navigation for your site.
+
 There are two primary ways of retrieving pages on a Jekyll site:
 
 * **Retrieve pages listed in a YAML data source**. Store the page data in a YAML (or JSON or CSV) file in the `_data` folder, loop through the YAML properties, and insert the values into your theme.