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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.