#1

Can the backlinking be made case-insensitive?

When I currently create a new page based on the block header “My Notes” (with upper case initials), the new page title will also be with upper case initials. When I later link “my notes” on another page in the sentence “Yesterday I checked my notes.”, the backlinking changes the “my notes” mid-sentence into “My Notes”. I would prefer that a link is established, but the case remains unchanged.

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#2

This makes sense to me, too. I would like to be able to name my notes like Wikipedia articles, using title case e.g. “Something”, but be able to link to it in the middle of a sentence e.g. “talking about [[something]] cool”.

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#3

Seems really important - how are people dealing with this currently?

#4

Propably with the alias [[something|An Uppercase Note]]

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#5

So that is the proper way? Ever time I want to link to something I need to [[Something|something]] ?

#6

ATM yes

#7

This feature would be extremely useful! I’m dealing with the same issue.

#8

Recently started using Roam and found this same issue. Came here and was pleasantly surprised that there is now a mobile app and I will most likely switch to Obsidian.

My first search was to see if this problem is solved in Obsidian. This would be incredibly useful. I have barely started my notes and this pops up all the time.

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#9

I think it is a little misdirecting that this topic is buried in the “Feature archive” as it is actually not implemented? @moderators

This does not only apply to page backlinks, but to all linkings - case sensitivity is a blocker for an organized knowledge graph, and the workaround of using [[link|Link]] every single time is really not intuitive.

#10

Has this been addressed?

#11

edit: They are case-insensitive. Ignore what I wrote below. I was wrong.

Why is this in “feature archive”?

My proposed solution is custom link like [[Something|something]] should be auto-applied. Basically when I type [[something]] (all small case letters), Obsidian should auto detect if there is already a document with the same name but different capitalization, for example “Something”. If there is one, [[Something|something]] should be automatically applied.

We are not computer code, case sensitivity should not matter when referencing other documents.

#12

do [[something]] and [[Something]] point to a different note?

#13

edit: No, they don’t point out to different files, unless both exist. I was wrong.
Yes, because they are filenames, right? something.md and Something.md.

#14

Have you tried?

#15

Yes. Why?

#16

Because on windows and mac, filenames are case-insensitive and point to same file.
On linux, obsidian tries to be case insensitive as well.

Are you sure they point to a different note?

#17

edit: No, they don’t. I was wrong.
Yes. They do on linux.

#18

If both file exist, then I think it’s ok to have them point separately.
do both file exist? what if only one file exists?

#19

Never mind, you were correct. They do point to the same files. My bad.

#20

I think the real point of this archived thread is getting this: