#50

+1 This would be super helpful.

For example, when researching vitamins, Vitamin B1 and Thiamine are the same thing. But when taking notes I would like to be able to fluidly link [Vitamin B1] and [Thiamine] and have both land on the same page.

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#51

+1 here. This is basically the only feature missing that’s stopping me from rating this app 10/10 (although Android app will be awesome when it comes I’m sure).

So many times I have to do [[Things|Thing]] or [[Other Thing|Other Things]] or even [[Super Duper Thing|Thing]] I wish this was already a feature or a plugin.

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#52

Yep, another +1 for this. Absolutely critical.

Also I second the proposal of setting up aliases in the front matter. Brilliant.

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#53

Hi @mrweckx, might you possibly be working on converting this script into a plugin? I would certainly ‘but you a coffee’ if it came to be. I suspect I would not be alone.

#54

Just wondering, could this be done better through dictionary of aliases of sorts, which will help to keep links in notes shorter?

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#55

+1
I am creating notes using my Polish language. Our grammar and language rules cause that we use a lot of forms for words. Now I need to add [[main_phase | some text]] almost to all my notes. If I can have a possibility to link all “some texts” to the main phase it would be wonderful

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#56

Right?! Two or three names for the same thing is the case with practically everything in medicine/biochemistry. Depending on the context, each specific name seems to fit better.

#57

Hi guys, sorry I wasn’t really activate on the forum.
We could make this a plugin the only thing I may need is a conversation with someone used to the api so we adapt the python code to the elements already present or for aesthetic purposes.
Does anyone know someone willing to colaborate and with some basic .ts or .js and api knowledge? Everything for free ofc.

#58

Hi,

I have almost no idea of how you pretend to make implementation through plugin, but I feel that this should be implemented within Obsidian core, because of Graph visualisations, backlinks management and so on.

This is only a fast impression from myself, but (hopelessly) I can be wrong.

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#59

No, I agree. This is central to linking and very helpful for multilingual vaults. DEVONthink has it as a feature and it’s the last thing I envy this app over Obsidian :slightly_smiling_face:

#60

Way beyond my skill set, I’m afraid - I was merely dreaming (I want the moon on a stick!)

#61

I see that Note Alias was added to the Obsidian Roadmap yesterday.

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#62

Sounds like a great idea. If so, I think it would make the most sense to store that dictionary in each note (as opposed to one giant dictionary that has the alias definitions over every note in the vault.

I could see this implemented in a few ways:

  1. A header at the top of the note. Obsidian could have it’s own syntax for marking alias names and keep it at the top of the file. (Would be nice if this header is foldable.)
  2. A “Properties” menu: the user could right-click the note, click “Properties” and within the Properties menu they could write in their alias names.
    • Disadvatage: this menu, and the metadata would probably not be readable outside of Obsidian.
  3. A hybrid of the two: Obsidian could render alias names in each “Properties” menu, but could store the actual alias metadata as plain text in Obsidian’s alias syntax. This way user’s can easily choose aliases in a menu, and yet they are still visible in other apps. (Even if other apps don’t know how to read Obsidian’s alias syntax, it should be easy to write a parser).
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#63

The dictionary can be stored in a YAML header of each note — similar to how documents are formed for Pandoc-markdown and R-markdown.

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#64

The ability to customize terms that should match in the Unlinked References of a note, to help with discovering backlinks for content that doesn’t exactly match the title. As a bonus, linking these unlinked references should create an alias page link.

To illustrate:

  • Have note “AI”
  • Specify “Artificial Intelligence” as an alias in the Unlinked References
  • Find all matches to artificial intelligence and link the unlinked reference
  • Obsidian creates an alias page link [[AI|Artificial Intelligence]]

This is crucial for me in lieu of a note merging feature, which enables a hack in Roam for achieving the same end result (minus aliasing), described here Merge two documents and update backlinks

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#65

Aliases are now available as of v0.9.16

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#66
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Auto-completion for certain frontmatter keys (aliases, tags, etc)
#67

Is there any specific format for “front matter”?

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#68

YAML format

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#69 
---
aliases: [[aOne, aTwo]]
tags: #tag1, #tag2
other: things
---

Like this? If so, super awesome!

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