When I’m writing a note, I will frequently add internal links to notes that don’t exist yet. Often I end up creating a lot of similar but slightly different links, e.g. to Fubar, Foobar, Foobars. Once I do create the note, I will assign all of those aliases to the new note.
Unfortunately, internal links to aliases don’t work. If the note is called Foobar, with an alias of Fubar, [[Fubar]] is a broken link. Manually changing it to [[Foobar|Fubar]] fixes it, but is incredibly annoying.
Proposed solution
Links to aliases should simply work. There might be some edge cases related to duplicates, but these edge cases already exist when using the same note name in multiple folders.
Rather than just using the alias as the link destination ([[AI]] ), Obsidian uses the [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] link format to ensure interoperability with other applications using the Wikilink format. (Aliases - Obsidian Help)
But a tool to find links that match an alias and convert them (for example from [[Alias]] to [[Note|Alias]]) would be handy. (Altho currently it’s not too hard to do manually: make a note with the alias name and go thru the backlinks doing search-replace. This can be done pretty quickly because the search-replace dialog stays open when you switch notes.)
I also imagine some people would like a setting to make aliases behave as described in the request.