Linking performance in the panel are really poor. The more unmentioned links in your list there are, the poorer the linking performance. it takes up to half a sec if you have several links in your list. And if you click to fast and don’t wait for the linking action to be over, then the lining fails and does not link the correct label.
In comparison backlinking is for some reason nearly instant.
It would be a great step to improve those performance.
Additionally, it would be cool to be able to specify your linking preferences.
For example, i would like to determine if i want to link : headers, quotes, etc…
also an option for when there is a linking conflict, then the linking is not done and obsidian generates a list of linking conflicts that you can resolve later.
All these parameters would allow an automatic linking feature that would work most of the time and thus save users a lot of time.
Thnak you beforehand for taking my request into consideration.
PogS
The reason Backlinks is faster than Unmentioned Mentions is that Obsidian indexes links. So Backlinks only needs to check the link index, while Unlinked Mentions has to search every word in the vault.
I changed the title to describe the request (was “Linking improvement”).
These should go in their own feature requests (if there aren’t already requests for them). It’s hard to track and discuss multiple requests in a single post.
I think they’re talking about the “Unlinked mentions” in Backlinks when they say “In comparison backlinking is for some reason nearly instant.”[1]. It is faster to, say, go into a note and then start linking to that note, even if all the links are in one note.