Including Microsoft Office documents? Also, linking to folders?

[ryanjamurphy]

Ahoy!

No option to attach arbitrary file formats yet. There is a feature request for it—I’m actually surprised it hasn’t gotten more love:

Insert/Embed other file formats like .xlsx and .docx (but not limited to) in addition to pdf and images

Currently, obsidian only allows pdfs and images to be added to the edtior. It would be helpful to have the ability to insert/embed file formats other than pdf. I work with a lot of excel and word files and it helps having those files linked to notes for reference.

And no linking to folders yet. Looks like yours truly created a feature request for folder linking at the end of May:

Allow [[links]] to folders

I don’t think this has been explicitly requested previously. Similar posts exist here and here, but I don’t think they’re the same as this request. I’ll try to make it simple: if a folder exists in the vault, you should be able to backlink to it—like [[Folder]]. This would make it easier to interlace folder-and-note setups for those of us using them. It’s also in line with how DEVONthink interprets [[wikilinks]]—not sure about other wikilink-supporting apps. Another twist on this idea: ![[Fol…

I use DEVONthink links for both of these requirements.