How to use an alias to a note with a two-word name/title?

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What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to link to a note using an alias. I’m writing about PopClip extensions.
Suppose I write the following note:
Did you know that [they](here the alias of the other note) are very cool.
Now note that ‘the other note’ is titled “PopClip Extensions”

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Things I have tried

  • I’ve tried to have Obsidian create the target note
  • Then I’ve tried adjusting the Note Title after Obsidian created the target note itself
  • I’ve tried using double and single quotes

But there seems no way to get this to work?
What am I missing?

Thanks for helping out!

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You seem to mix things up here with aliases.

First of all, check the docs:

The string in the round brackets is not the alias, but must be the actual file – URL encoded – plus the extension. (I’m not sure the extension can be omitted; prolly not; I never used markdown links and I’m not going to start now.)
What you refer to as an alias is the label that comes before it in square brackets.

Secondly, is there any particular reason why you’d want to use markdown links? Is it because you want to publish to a Digital Garden or other template that expects it?
Wikilinks make your life easier.

Finally, an alias needs to be entered for Wikilinks on the go, but if you create a file with frontmatter (Obsidian properties, including the aliases property), you can pre-define aliases on file creation from a template or manually. Then those aliases will be offered, but it is not really what you wanted, but labeling.
You need to decide what links you want to use and for what reason.
If you want to publish online, I can offer a solution that makes use of Wikilinks.

External links work the same way as internal markdown links:
[Fuz](https://github.com/Magnushhoie/fuz) is a nifty tool.
There is no alternative with Wikilinks to be used there.

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I’m a little confused whether we’re on the same page with the whole alias thing.

Within a note, i.e. PopClip Extensions, you can add a property aliases which could have the values PCE, PopClip Ext. This has then created two aliases for this note.

Now when you in some random note use the auto-completion to create a link, you could type [[PCE and the auto-completion would suggest the link to PopClip Extensions with a display text of PCE. Aka [[PopClip Extensions|PCE]] (or (PCE)[PopClip%20Extensions] if you don’t use WikiLinks).

In neither case, will Obsidian populate the aliases property for you based on what you write as an display alias in any of your links. (At least I’ve not seen that action done in any of my vaults so far)