ariehen
January 23, 2024, 11:14pm
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You can drag & drop a file from outside Obsidian holding Ctrl (Windows/Linux) or Option (mac) creating an absolute link to the file. Is that what you mean? It will end up looking like this (on Windows):
https://help.obsidian.md/User+interface/Drag+and+drop#Dragging+from+outside+Obsidian
More examples here:
Linking to external files is mentioned in the drag and drop help documentation
Hold Ctrl on Windows/Linux or Option on macOS to create file:/// absolute links to those files instead of importing a copy.
but there aren’t any examples of the options available. I’ll write up a request to add some examples to the official help documentation, but for the time being, here’s a list I’ve collected.