Problem with links when there are multiple files with same name

[thebjornidentity]

Hey everybody!

I’m a total newbie, and English is not my first language – so please be a bit patient with me.

I have a problem. I have an Obsidian vault in which there are a couple of notes which have the same name, though they are placed in different folders.

When I try to link to one of these notes, I use the format [[folder/folder/note|Name I want to see]], as you can see in this image:

However, when I leave the “editing mode”, I get this result:

Now, as you probably understand, I don’t want it to look like that. I’d like to see only what I write after the “|” in the brackets. What am I doing wrong?

I’d really appreciate any help. (Also, please forgive me if this text is incomprehensible.)

[I-d-as]

You’re not doing anything wrong. It is just that the pipe character used within the link to denote the following display text gets interpreted as being a pipe character used to define the end of that cell in the table.

If you add a \ before the pipe character, it will work correctly. As an example, see some of the links in the table here: Regular Expressions in Obsidian (copied from mdn web docs).

Good luck!

[thebjornidentity]

Thank you so much! This worked splendidly