I was editing a note today and created a wikilink to a non-existent note that contained a slash. E.g. [[a note about birds/bees]]. I didn’t think about the filename when creating it.
Of course, upon clicking, what Obsidian did was create a folder named “a note about birds” and then a new file named “bees” inside. That’s definitely not what I wanted.
Just wondering if others have run into this, and if there are any better solutions or workarounds other than just being very mindful when forming links not to use any special characters.
Perhaps submit a feature request for something like a momentary pop-up reminder (that can be disabled if desired, of course) that warns about what a slash in a new wikilink will do. Something like, “Note: This link ([[ABC/XYZ]]) will create a note named “XYZ” in vault folder “ABC” when clicked. If this was not your intent, remove the forward slash from the link text.”
Alternatively (or in addition?), the text on either side of the slash in the link could be colored differently to emphasize that it’s not an ordinary link.
