While researching how to use one directional links in Obsidian without creating backlinks, I came across Markdown links which achieve this. But they don’t support spaces in the link by default. Here are some ways to work around this:
Markdown links don’t support spaces in Obsidian.
Example
This link [Blender pip Qt addon](Blender pip Qt addon.md)
Opens the Blender.md file instead, because there is a space in the link.
Workarounds
escape space characters doesn’t work in Obsidian [Obsidian - one way wikilinks](<Obsidian\ -\ one\ way\ wikilinks.md>)
it creates a new note wikilinks.md
replacing space with %20 works
`[Obsidian - one way wikilinks](Obsidian%20-%20one%20way%20wikilinks.md)` Obsidian - one way wikilinks
Wrapping the link target in angle brackets works.
`[Obsidian - one way wikilinks](<Obsidian - one way wikilinks.md>)` Obsidian - one way wikilinks
`[Obsidian - one way wikilinks](<Obsidian - one way wikilinks>)` Obsidian - one way wikilinks
Angle brackets tell the parser to treat everything inside as a literal URL, including spaces.
a sequence of zero or more characters between an opening < and a closing > that contains no line endings or unescaped < or > characters, or
a nonempty sequence of characters that does not start with <, does not include ASCII control characters or space character, and includes parentheses only if (a) they are backslash-escaped or (b) they are part of a balanced pair of unescaped parentheses. (Implementations may impose limits on parentheses nesting to avoid performance issues, but at least three levels of nesting should be supported.)
escape space characters doesn’t work in Obsidian
replacing space with