Hi,
I started with Obsidian the last 4 week and shows a lot of youtube videos. But I have some questions.
For example I wrote some notes where I used the word python for the programming language. Then I wrote a Note for python. Now I will replace in every note the word python with [[python]]. But I don’t want if I have a tag named python that it is replaced by [[python]] in the metadata. And in the future when I type the word python I want to be reminded that I have the Note [[python]].
Is that possible, if so how or do i need a specific plugin?
And there we come to my second question I read an very intresting article.
A Guide On Links vs. Tags In Obsidian Because of this i ask myself the question is it useful to create tags like #python, #css and #html or should i keep a tag more general maybe like #programming? In favor of having fewer tags. On the other hand, with dataview I am very flexible when creating mocs. What are your experiences? And again the question is there a good plugin to manage tags?
Sorry for my bad english its not my general language.
And thanks for helping!!!
The software will never remind you that a word corresponds with an existing note. It never will automatically create internal links (it automatically created external links from URI-formatted strings, though).
To not link just for the pleasure of linking. Link functionally, i.e., where the link is providing a significant contribution to the ideas of the current note.
Otherwise, you will “dilute” your links. When you later consult a note, and want to retrieve relevant connected ideas, you do not want many links that are only linked to the current note in a cursory way. You only want the related information that is meaningfully contributing.
Thus, you should do the effort of considering: is a link to that note really of added value here or not?
With tags, there is a much higher risk to create “dilution” than by over-liberate linking. Before you know, you have thousands of tags. You don’t remember them and it becomes difficult to locate a tag.
Some people therefore prefer to reserve tags more to denote a “status” , e.g. #todo, #done, or a type, e.g. #article, #book.
Links in fact can act as tags for content. As such, you can see your [[python]] link as a tag. It refers to a tagnote, connecting every note that is related to the python programming language. This way, if a note is connected to python, it can contain a tag [[python]]. Only once, as sort of a tag, or within a sentence if the contents of the [[python]] note are importantly connected to the contents of the current note, i.e, not just by the mere fact that this also “is about python”.