Create alias from selected text in target note frontmatter

[gobbletown]

Agreed!

Still hoping it’s either my technical ignorance or a semantical situation…

This is a great proposed implementation from recent:

Push content to link - Automatically apply #tags, [[links]], ![[embeds]] into newly-created [[links]] through "[[link]]>>{insert content}"

Let’s say you were typing something… and wanted to create a page for [[Andy Matuschak]]. instead of having to use something like Hover Editor to hover over and open the page up, or traditionally opening it up in a new or existing panel… What if you could just do this? [[Andy Matsuschak]]>>{#type/person} wrote about his system of [[Evergreen Notes]]>>{#type/concept \n - [ ] to explore further on this topic later on}. And after the plugin runs through this line, it becomes: [[Andy Matsusch…

Have exchanged PM’s with different thread authors and OPs which seem to indicate the feature remains absent.

These are two of the more poignant early threads discussing the same feature:

Wikilinks in YAML front matter

Mod-Edit: I renamed this thread to focus on wikilinks in YAML frontmatter. The other part of the title “Notion-like databases from metadata” is already possible with Dataview, Database Folder, and all related plugins. First, I’d like to thank all contributors to Obsidian for making the absolute best knowledge management application! Over the years many applications never quite delivered what I was looking for and ideas of a better system started accumulating in my mind. The most notable idea…

Nesting functional links within link names

Use case or problem I would like to automate the process of creating clumps of links. Proposed solution First you could define shortened functioning link names that go to desired notes. Then you could create a new note that contains those links. And in order to avoid unintended nested linking, it could require you add a certain symbol before these aliases in these links. It might be a nice bonus feature for it to recognize the aliases within note name and automatically add the actual full l…