What I’m Trying to do:
I use obsidian to plan out and write fanfiction. A partner and I write multiple stories in the same general multiverse, with multiple versions of the same characters.
As is, I have the characters set up like this:
Root
-Characters
--Character 1 (foldernote containing transclusions of all underlying Character 1 versions)
---Story 1!Character 1 (actual .md file of the version of Character 1 specific to Story 1)
---Story 2!Character 1 (actual .md file of the version of Character 1 specific to Story 2)
--Character 2 (foldernote containing transclusions of all underlying Character 2 versions)
etc
-Fics
--Story 1 (Folder note containing obsidian://show-plugin?id=waypoint waypoint)
---Characters
----Character x (random story specific character, .md file)
--Story 2 (same as above)
What I would like to do, is still have the actual Story 1!Character 1 file inside the folder for the parent character, but have a redirect/shortcut to it in the Characters file for that story specifically. Both for ease of access and for the purposes of Graph View.
So far everything online and in this forum has suggested to do one of three options:
- Give up and just use tags instead (I do use tags, they don’t help at all in this case, as what I’m trying to do is essentially make a link but as a file.
- Just make a new file and use transclusion (this gives me duplicates in my graph view which is incredibly annoying)
- use symlinks or hardlinks or windows shortcuts (One, symlinks and hardlinks are really dangerous and don’t work with sync, two, I don’t want to have to manually create a windows shortcut to every character, especially across dozens of characters in over 20 fics.
Is there any plugin or standard way to do this, or am I SOL?