Alternate Titles

Feature requests
1

Use case or problem

In analogy to an Amusewiki feature, it would be nice for the Outline, the Graph, and even heading-based linking to have the ability to specify an alternate heading.

Specific Example - Dictionaries

If I make a dictionary MOC which houses terms (or abbreviations) like:

### Term
*Example* term *in sentence*

(**p.o.s.**) Definition
- [External Definition]()
- [[Dedicated (Internal) Note]]

it would be awesome to make a link quickly via [[Dictionary MOC#Term]] that displays the term. Then, in combination with the Page preview plugin, I have a Wikipedia-like quick definition at my fingertips (well, mouse-tips).

Proposed solution

Given # Short Title | Long Title, have Obsidian show Short Title for the Outline, Graph, and any heading-based links (which currently prints Note > Heading without alternate display text given) and # Long Title for Preview mode.

Current workaround (optional)

None for the graph AFIK, give alternate text for my dictionary terms.

Related feature requests (optional)

Alternate Text for Graph - same implementation, different end-goal

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Instead of overloading the level 1 heading, why not leverage the Markdown frontmatter (YAML) for this?

For example,

---
short-title: hello
---

# Hello World

Foo bar ...

This page will use “Hello World” as its title in main views, but “hello” in the likes of graph view.

cf. Allow overriding sidebar title by srid · Pull Request #488 · srid/emanote · GitHub