Agreed it would be useful! But I’m going to move this to Help. This has already been discussed and requested. Please remember to search before posting a feature request.
I think as superset of this feature, having link types makes sense too for better organisation. I used to use TheBrain (previously PersonalBrain) which had this link type feature among nodes. Granted it was mainly a mind-map type app, whereas the graph is one feature in Obsidian but I think since the core of Obsidian is still notes and the connections between them, it makes sense.
Link types can help establish certain relationships that we cannot do now like,
Parent - Child
Sibling (default a…
Use case or problem
At the moment, there is only one type of link as far as I have seen. But the Zettelkasten methodology employs two types of links that are important to differentiate. I want to switch from ZKN3 (which has implemented the differentiation between the two types of links) to Obsidian. Thus, at the moment it is no possible to differentiate between a link to, on the one hand, a following Zettel/note/file (“Folgezettel”) which establishes a Zettel/note sequence (e.g. an argumentation…
Also check out the community plugin Juggl which can do things like this. You might find it interesting.
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