#35

Sometimes I do this while writing, usually the idea is that I know that I will later want to create a note on the thing I’m linking to, but I haven’t finished writing the current note, or I don’t want to write the new note yet. However I want something to remind me and indicate that I was intending to make a note on that topic. My new notes are set to be created in a separate folder, so occasionally I just look through that folder and write up whatever is in there.

This works well for me because my use case is primarily writing up my maths notes. Usually I have some topic I want to write about, but there will be prerequisite topics that need to be introduced, so if I find myself referring to some topic I’ve yet to create a note on, that’s a good cue for me that I need to create such a note, but usually I do that after. It would be very difficult to keep track of all the topics I intended to make notes on without having the note exist in my incomplete folder, hence wanting the note to exist upon linking, without having to move to that linked note and interrupt my work flow for the note I’m currently working on

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#36

This is definitely something that I am looking for as well. We discussed it in Discord a little bit.

One idea was making the links in the current note easier to navigate so that you could go back to them after the note, however, I still have a problem if that was the only thing implemented. What if I have more than one link that I want to make a note from? I would like to make a template or blank note for all of them so that I can use the quick navigation to go-to those notes afterward. If it was only the quick link navigation, I would be able to navigate back to one of the links quickly, make the new note, switch context, and continue there, but now what about the other 2 or 3 links that I needed to make notes for? I would have to go back to the original note, find the next link, and make the next note from there again. I would much rather have them all already created while I was making the original note.

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#37

I agree, the behaviour you describe is something I would like too

#38

Perhaps there are other ways to solve this issue without actually creating the file. Obsidian could provide a list of links without files. I’ve also requested that the quick switcher include these links.

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#39

That could work as well.

#40

Is there a reason that this would be better than just for example a toggle switch in the settings? Thanks!

#41

For full mouse-less action with fastest action the command palette should be able to make a new note with ‘new name-of-my-note’.

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#42

Not necessarily better, just a different approach.

#43

I agree that this would be helpful.

I have experimented with taking lists that I have already created elsewhere and pasting them into columns (In libre office calc) and then select column, find and replace with find set to .* and replace set to [[& then replace all. Then I do the same with replace set to &]]. Then I copy and paste the unformatted text into a new note. If this could somehow automatically create all of those .md files that would be sweet.

Import From Excel: New Note for Each Row
#44

I think he means the function like plugin “Page preview”

#45

Now I am using the “Quick switcher” plug-in, and copy all then paste.
I think the final solution could be tabs in pane + hot string or text expander. There are many mentions about the expander now and you can also use espanso.

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#46

I am bumping this because I think its an important feature.

The way I imagine implementing this is through the pop up menu that already appears when creating a link. Similar to the ability to link to a header, maybe the addition of a symbol creates a new note.

I like the idea some of you mentioned for more flexibility in creating the note. I for one would like to be able to choose which folder the note goes into. I haven’t started creating template notes yet but I could also see it being incredible useful to choose which template the note should be created as.

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#47

I think this should be a setting where the user decides whether or not to create the page upon new link detected.

I’m not sure if I’d like having several files empty. For example, I point to several dates ([[2020-11-10]] and so on) in my vault, but these files don’t necessarily contain anything, they are just there to organize information, whenever I search for an exact match of the link.

#48

Any news on this topic?

#49

Can we please get an update? This is a feature I would really like.

Seems like an option in settings to toggle on / off is best solution.

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#50

I think this relates to what I have posted here under Fully transclude backlinks

#51

Any update on this?

#52

For the backlink to the “original note”, I think I can relate a little bit to this. My workaround is that I mainly create links in a diary note and so I can trace my thinking often to the diary note.

I guess this can be implemented by just having the original note highlighted in some way in the backlink view since at the moment it seems all backlinks are displayed equally and so no way to trace the original link.

#53

I wold still like to see this if possible, even if it’s just an option toggle somewhere or as suggested above there was a way to see links without pages attached easily so I could make them into pages by clicking through every so often (if it exists and I missed it please let me know!)

#54

Since 0.12.4 or so, you can enable Settings → Core plugins → Outgoing links, which will show these on a per-note-basis.

Or use the Find unlinked files and unresolved links plugin, which will create a note showing all of them on a per-vault-basis.

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