go - Are pointers dereferenced by default inside of methods?

Question

I'm confused by methods on structs in Go. I've following along in a tutorial in which they have:

func (p *Page) save() error {
    filename := p.Title + ".txt"
    return ioutil.WriteFile(filename, p.Body, 0600)
}

From my understanding, p is pointer and you would need to dereference the pointer before retrieving a property for example:

filename := (*p).Title + ".txt"

The only way this makes sense to me is if the dot is acting like -> in C++. What am I missing?

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