Create a link to Obsidian note within Inline Link Text

[Court1]

Hi All,

Total noob to Obsidian and markdown so my apologies if I’m not even using the correct vocabulary. Please correct it if I do not.

Can I create Obsidian backlinks within the alt. text for an inline hyperlink?

For example, I’ve added a link in a list of resources like so:

[Evergreen Notes & Working with the Garage Door Open by Andy Matuschak](http://www.andymatuschak.org)

I would like to add Obsidian backlinks/notes within the link’s alt text. Specifically:

• [[Evergreen Notes]]
• [[Working with the Garage Door Open]]

Is this possible?

And if it is possible, is there a reason I shouldn’t want to do this?

[I-d-as]

Welcome, @Court1!

I think this is a great question, but unfortunately I don’t think it’s possible. I made a somewhat similar request a while back here: Nesting functional links within link names

Sounds like you know what’s up already, but, just in case, I figured I’d make sure you know you can do [[Actual Note Name |Displayed Link Name]] to link to the note called ‘Actual Note Name‘ but have the link in Preview Mode displayed as ‘Displayed Link Name’. Good luck!

[Court1]

“Sounds like you know what’s up already”

Haha, you’re being generous. I think I only barely understood your Nesting functional links within link names post.

AND…do you mind telling me a bit more about the actual v. displayed name? Is this part of the “aliases” topic? I’m not sure I understand the use case for doing what you’re describing.

[I-d-as]

My posts back then were a little out there, so I don’t blame you, ha!

This is from the help docs:

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Basically you just add a | then the custom preview name you want displayed after the actual note you are linking to. Of course, all of this is within the context of using the [[ links.

I realize now that this tip about using pretty links wasn’t really relevant to what you were asking. I think I originally misunderstood what you were asking so that idea was in my head, then after linking to my old post I immediately transitioned into explain this tip without really thinking it through.

I refer to aliases wrongly in that post although aliases are somewhat relevant in a sense that many people would like the use of a certain pretty link for a note to automatically define an alias. Automatically insert aliases into frontmatter from newly created aliases Wow, I am making this all very confusing. https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Add+aliases+to+note My bad. Aliases can be defined with the front matter of a note so that you can easily link to said note by typing that or any other defined alias name after the [[ and using the suggestions pop up.

I saw your other post asking about tips for learning. I assume you’ve been through the help vault. If not it is definitely worth a wander.

[Court1]

I saw your other post asking about tips for learning. I assume you’ve been through the help vault. If not it is definitely worth a wander.

I’ve checked it out, and there is definitely a lot of worthwhile information in there! I doubt I’m totally alone in saying that until this “clicks” for me, wandering says it all.

I don’t want to wander around the Labyrinth, I want to go straight to the castle!!!