Multiple Links in One Property

[Jordan33J]

What I’m trying to do

Put multiple links in one property.

Things I have tried

1. [[Integrity]] [[-Morality]] [[-Values]] [[-Ethics]] is interpreted as a single link and note instead of four.

2. [“[[Integrity]]”, “[[-Morality]]”, “[[-Values]]”, “[[-Ethics]]”] also doesn’t work, it doesn’t even register as a link.

3. In source mode

CCore:

• [[Integrity]]
• [[-Morality]]
• [[-Values]]
• [[-Ethics]]

Which also doesn’t work.

[Pch]

You need to change the type of key and set it to list

You can do so by clicking on the icon in front of CCore and in the dropdown titled Property type select the option List…

After that, you’ll be able to store multiple links within that key
(Source Mode on the left and Live Preview on the right)

You can also write it as an array in Source mode :

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list: ["[[Integrity]]","[[-Morality]]","[[-Values]]","[[-Ethics]]"]
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… but Obsidian will re-write it as a bulleted list when you or “something” will interact with Properties …

[Jordan33J]

Thank you Pch! I knew the solution was simple and I had to tinker more. Thank you for a timely response my friend!

[Pch]

My pleasure ! Glad to know it now works as expected

[Tomasz]

I have another question, from the same field.
Is there a limitation (either systemic or practical one), how many links can I have under one property? Can I have 100 or 200 links in one property?

Let’s say I have a note about a academic book, with a frontline property: Cited literature. The bibliography of this book cites 200 positions. Can I store the list under this property? Is there any reason for not doing it?

[innievi]

Do you if a formula property can contain a link with text?

My formula is: link(“2025-10-27”), but if I add text after it like: link(“2025-10-27”) + “Monday”, the link doesn’t work anymore.

[Pch]

If "Monday" isn’ meant to be used as a display name/alias for the link, I think you need to use an array in the formula field to store both:

[link("2025-10-27"), "Monday"]

But if the purpose of the formula is to say that 2025-10-27 is a Monday and have it displayed as a link, you could use a formula such as:

link("2025-10-27", "Monday")

or

link("2025-10-27", "2025-10-27 Monday")

[Jordan33J]

I have tested having many links in one property and it works fine. You can collapse the properties pane too so that keeps things clean. (See gif below)

However I doubt the practicality of it unless you have some sort of system or script to automate filling them.

And consider that in Obsidian you’re not confined to linking in properties, you can link inside the note body as well which I think would be cleaner and the right choice.

This is just my humble opinion and I might be wrong. But from a pure systems principles thinking perspective, I doubt bloating one property with links is the right design.

[Tomasz]

Thank you. This is the practical insight I was hoping for.
One of the reasons for doing this is I can have different categories of links, e.g. I can have one property for references to English books and the other one for the literature in German.
As far as I know, if I make a link in a body of note, they are all the same kind.

[Jordan33J]

Glad you found value in it.

And yes, links that you make in the body of a note are all the same connections. However there are some things to consider, and I prompted ChatGPT about it as I’m not sure myself, you can read it if you’d like here if it helps you in anyway. (I think the Variants section would be relevant for you and for your system)

How Obsidian Treats Links — The Essentials

• All links to the same note are the same connection.
  Every [[Note Name]] points to the same underlying file, no matter where it appears. In graph view, they collapse into one node — one note, many arrows leading to it.

• Each link is its own relationship.
  Even though they share the same destination, each link originates from a different context (Note A → Note B → Note C). In graph terms, same node, different edges.

• Variants matter:

  • [[Note|Alias]] → same note, just different label
  • [[Note#Header]] → same note, but a section anchor
  • [[Note^blockID]] → same note, but a specific block
  • ![[Note]] → embeds the same note visually

• Graph View shows one node per note, not per link.
  Each link strengthens that note’s connectivity — like adding new synapses to the same neuron.

• Think of it this way:

  A note is a neuron; a link is a synapse.
  You’re not duplicating the note — you’re reinforcing its connections.

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In short:

Multiple links to the same note = one destination, many relationships.
Links define connections, not copies.

[innievi]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! The first one worked!