How do I create link in target "dad" from "child"

Hi all, new to obsidian here and haven’t found what i’m looking for. Sorry if it has already been answered, my obsidian vocabulary might be too limited to find it. Any help is much appreciated!

I create a file called “child” which contains a lot of information “info”
while still in “child” I want to create a link inside my target file “dad”
such that when I go to “dad” i can click the link inside “dad” to go to “child”

i essentially want to create a backlink for “child”, while still in the “child” frontmatter.

currently I have to go into every file that I want to link to “child” and type "[[child]]; I have to go into “dad” and type [[child]].

while in “child” i want it to type “[[child]]” IN the target note “dad”.

please help if you have any ideas, because I want a variety of files all over my vault to link to this file “child” and doing it manually takes a long time and has a lot of chance for error.

I hope that was understandable. new to obsidian and have not managed to find anything similar. it might be because I don’t have the vocabulary to search for the right thing.

Thank you!

Things I have tried

i have looked through the community plugins and read readmes for all of the keywords i can think of

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You need to add your property keys and values manually (copy+paste possibly), because only you know the existence and intended relationships of your notes.

Later on, you might want to try the Linked Data Vocabularies plugin as it can add to the frontmatter of your notes but currently, it won’t help you now, I don’t think.

I’m not sure Breadcrumbs or Excalibrain (both plugins deal with relationships such as parent and child) has anything to do with automating the process. Prolly not.

This is something I’ve wanted to do, too. The difficulty of it has been a big disappointment. I once asked if the directionality of links matters. I was assured it does. I’m not so sure. Maybe all that matters is that there are links.

This seems related to the topic of assigning Luhmannesque alphanumeric IDs to notes. In digital note taking I find it excruciatingly difficult. It really slows the process down and takes me away from thinking about the substantive topic. I’ve stopped trying to imitate Luhmann.

Once, in work, at a time when personal computers had not been around that long, I had a five-drawer paper file cabinet organized two ways. One set was topical. One was by date. I could find anything relatively easily. My colleagues used to come to me for copies of their files.

I wrote labels on the files in pencil so I could change them. Periodically I’d do a pretty radical organization to accommodate accumulated name changes.

My digital files now are topical. They’re not very effectively linked. Mostly a collection of isolated notes. I don’t think that’s good. They don’t reflect the development of my thinking.

Maybe the problem is that my thinking isn’t developing. It’s just scattershot.

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