#1

Use case or problem

I have a note on the key concept “History”. To link notes with the words
"historical", "historiography", "historians", "historicized" etc.,
I have to type in every single inflection manually, TWICE with lower and upper case.

This gets much more complicated with German, where every single adjective and verb can have upwards of 8 (!) different inflections depending on the temporal tense and gender of the sentence subject (masc./fem./neutr.)… which also multiply with each other btw.

The effort of manually typing in aliases basically neutralizes Obsidian’s linking funtionality!!

Proposed solution

Allow placeholders for aliases, so
aliases: histor**
will let me easily link all the inflections to my key concepts note!

And please make aliases non-case sensitive or allow that option? Maybe with curvy brackets, so aliases: {h}istor** might find everything?

Current workaround (optional)

Sorry, my “workaround” of using the search for “histor” and manually copying all the found inflections over to the alias-section doesn’t seem to be one after a couple of weeks… it’s exhausting and distracting from actually working with the notes. But without it, notes will inevitably get “lost” in the vault.

PLEASE let me know if I am missing something obvious.

#2

With great thanks to Eleanor Konik, I have now learned that YAML does not support placeholders, hence the silence here I guess :slight_smile:

Alternative request/idea:

The possibility to “automatically” create an alias in the YAML of a note I want to link to.

Process:

Highlight a word in a text.
Open a menu “Set as alias for…” and then search for the note that I want to add this word as an alias to.
An alias is automatically created in the YAML.

Would this be a possibility? Otherwise the unlinked mentions are basically useless if I have to manually add 8-10 aliases for every verb, adjective and especially composite noun.

Even if German might be a “specific” use case, I’m wondering if this is not also a fundamental problem worthy of attention?

#3

P.S.: I see this has been requested at least since August 2020: Add aliases to frontmatter by right click on a link with alias

And also here: Automatically insert aliases into frontmatter from newly created aliases

It is really hard to overstate how liberating this would be for the use of Obsidian in other languages than English. Funny how the software-supported Zettelkasten is apparently impossible in German :slight_smile: