File name as note title?

[philbowell]

This morning when I launched Obsidian all of my file names had stopped showing as headers in my notes and I can’t seem to locate the setting to turn it back on again. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Or did it get removed in an update?

[JonathanBuchh]

I believe this has yet to be implemented, but I could be wrong. Here’s the open feature request:

Use H1 or YAML property "title" instead of or in addition to filename as display name

I’m interested in a setting that would use a note’s H1 or front-matter title instead of or in addition to the filename as the display name everywhere: links, backlinks, graph view, search, etc. How would this be useful: For users who use IDs as filenames or who generally want more concise filenames Use illegal filename characters and emojis in note titles More readable graph, search, backlinks, etc. Other assumptions/thoughts/questions: Is this global or feature-specific? By feature-specif…

[GLight]

This is a wild guess:

I think you may provide a screenshot to show what’s going on.

[philbowell]

I realised it’s a setting in the California theme. I was looking in the general Obsidian settings for it.