You can continue to use the dumb quotes then apply regex changes on the page (or all pages, if you use an external program) when done, like so:
You can use a text editor like Notepad++, Sublime Text, etc. where you need to tick regex (regular expression) to be able to make the replacements.
- Example on how to use regex in Notepad++. Just use the match and replace parts from the regex101 site above.
Or alternatively, you can do it right here in Obsidian.
- You can find some help with that here.