I want to develop a plugin for suggesting and managing references to people in notes.
The @ symbol feels like the best trigger phrase for name suggestions because of how commonly it is used for “tagging people”. What I want to do is add @ as a trigger so that typing @jo brings up the suggestions John Doe, Johnny Law, etc.
But nldates-obsidian, which is a really popular plugin, already uses @ to trigger its own suggestions. AFAIK, there’s no way in the API to combine the suggestions from multiple sources. So I’m looking for suggestions on what I can do. I have thought of a few options.
- Use
@as well and hope that the user doesn’t have both the plugins installed at the same time. - Find a way to somehow detect that
nldates-obsidianis active in the vault and
- change the trigger to my plugin to
&and show a warning to the user. - warn the user that there is a conflict and let them change the trigger phrase for one of the plugins.
- Give up on editor suggestions completely and (I hate this the most because this has the worst user experience on the mobile)
- Rely on people typing the full name of the person and convert those to links to the people notes.
- Depend on hotkeys/commands.