Plugin against "File name cannot contain / : ?"

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Hello,

I understand the OS does not allow files to have these special characters.

I use Obsidian in a way where I make pages / notes out of concepts such as [[do-idea: give a workshop on bal folk music / jam sessions]].

It is quite annoying to have the “File name cannot contain any of the following characters” flow pop up again and again, and then to try out sub-optimal replacements (like • and – and _), that do not convey the same thing. At that point I can’t be bothered anymore to make an alias with the better name.

Does there already exist a way to map note names, like the above example, to a file-system compatible name, and auto-add an alias property with the user-supplied name?

Best,
Tomas

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Maybe GitHub - snezhig/obsidian-front-matter-title: Plugin for Obsidian.md

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If you apply a Templater template related to the creation of new files, it shouldn’t be that hard to check if tp.file.title has any of the illegal characters, and translate/transpose those into something else, and at the same time add the alias to the newly created file. I don’t you can do that with the core template plugin, but it should be a somewhat easy thing to do using Templater.