Auto-alias insertion for relative filepaths does not work when creating notes by clicking uninitialized link

[alltagsverstand]

First of all: I strongly recommend to update your installer version (it is 0.15.9 in your case, thus far beyond the current version).

This said obsidian does not (yet) insert an alias if the file you link to is located in the same directory as the note you are linking from. This is default behavior so far, thus no bug.

I am quite certain (couldn’t find it quickly) that there is at least one open feature request for creating a new note in a different folder by clicking an unresolved link that contains a file path (like [[path/to/subfolder/my-new-note]] - I think this is somehow related to your problem.

Edit: even more related is this feature request:

When renaming a note preserve link text as a display text

I noticed that when I’m writing notes for some terms I just create links for the future notes and leave them as is in the text. Now when I get back to creating actual notes for those links I usually like to rename the notes and this also changes the link in the original note which is nice, but it would be nicer if it preserves the original link as a display text. Example: Vitamin C is required for the biosynthesis of [[collagen]]. In this example collagen is a totally new link which doesn’t…