Ability to use aliases as working links

[I-d-as]

Use case or problem

I would like to have various links to the same note so that I can distinguish the context in which an identical link as a heading is situated within heading structure. See separate request for a semi understandable description here: Additional context for Subheading auto suggestion

Proposed solution

If aliases worked as actual links as opposed to just enabling autocomplete connections.

[Torch]

Possible workaround

I have wanted this feature as well. This updated version of this auto-linking tool seems like a good workaround, based on the description.

It will take your aliases in frontmatter, and make them working links. For example, if phone is an alias in smartphone.md, phone will become [[smartphone|phone]]

Thus, it makes your aliases “working links”.

(At least based on my understanding of this tool. I haven’t tried it out yet.)

Seems like it modifies using your clipboard, though, so you may need this.

Auto-Linking Tool

With the introduction of aliases into Obsidian 0.9.16, it was time to rework the auto-linking tool. Here is an overview of what the tool does and what has changed. The auto-linking tool is a Python script that scans your vault for Markdown files, collecting a list of all the note titles and any aliases that are defined in YAML frontmatter. Aliases were introduced in Obsidian v0.9.16 - https://publish.obsidian.md/help/How+to/Add+aliases+to+note. To cut down on file access and increase speed, th…