diff --git a/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.test.ts b/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.test.ts
index 50306789f4..d1a44309ca 100644
--- a/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.test.ts
+++ b/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.test.ts
@@ -108,5 +108,93 @@ describe('linkParser', () => {
         expect(lastSegment).toEqual({ type: 'text', content: ')' });
       });
     });
+
+    describe('file path detection', () => {
+      describe('Unix paths', () => {
+        it('should detect multi-segment absolute paths', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('Check /home/user/file.txt for details');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/home/user/file.txt',
+            displayText: '/home/user/file.txt',
+            url: '/home/user/file.txt',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+
+        it('should detect two-segment paths', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('See /etc/nginx.conf');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/etc/nginx.conf',
+            displayText: '/etc/nginx.conf',
+            url: '/etc/nginx.conf',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+
+        it('should NOT detect single-segment paths', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('Navigate to /transaction page');
+          const linkSegments = result.filter(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegments).toHaveLength(0);
+        });
+
+        it('should handle paths with trailing slashes', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('Look in /usr/bin/ directory');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/usr/bin/',
+            displayText: '/usr/bin/',
+            url: '/usr/bin/',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+
+        it('should detect deep nested paths', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('File at /var/log/nginx/access.log');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/var/log/nginx/access.log',
+            displayText: '/var/log/nginx/access.log',
+            url: '/var/log/nginx/access.log',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+
+        it('should NOT match paths with spaces', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('Not a path: /this has spaces/file');
+          const linkSegments = result.filter(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegments).toHaveLength(0);
+        });
+
+        it('should detect single-segment paths with trailing slash', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('Navigate to /transaction/ page');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/transaction/',
+            displayText: '/transaction/',
+            url: '/transaction/',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+
+        it('should detect paths with dashes and underscores', () => {
+          const result = parseNotes('See /opt/my-app/config_file.yml');
+          const linkSegment = result.find(s => s.type === 'link');
+          expect(linkSegment).toEqual({
+            type: 'link',
+            content: '/opt/my-app/config_file.yml',
+            displayText: '/opt/my-app/config_file.yml',
+            url: '/opt/my-app/config_file.yml',
+            isFilePath: true,
+          });
+        });
+      });
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.ts b/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.ts
index bd881e57e7..3a90da2f2d 100644
--- a/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.ts
+++ b/packages/desktop-client/src/notes/linkParser.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ export type ParsedSegment =
 const MARKDOWN_LINK_REGEX = /\[([^\]]+)\]\(([^)]+)\)/;
 const FULL_URL_REGEX = /https?:\/\/[^\s]+/;
 const WWW_URL_REGEX = /www\.[^\s]+/;
-const UNIX_PATH_REGEX = /^\/(?:[^\s/]+\/)*[^\s/]+$/;
+const UNIX_PATH_REGEX = /^\/[^\s/]+\/[^\s]*$/;
 const WINDOWS_PATH_REGEX = /^[A-Z]:\\(?:[^\s\\]+\\)*[^\s\\]+$/i;
 
 // Common trailing punctuation that should not be part of URLs
diff --git a/upcoming-release-notes/6966.md b/upcoming-release-notes/6966.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..23293b2d4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upcoming-release-notes/6966.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+category: Bugfixes
+authors: [PratikSilwal5]
+---
+
+Prevent single-slash paths from being parsed as filepaths