Relative links for external files

[HeikoErhardt]

Since I have come to know Obsidian, I have started to manage my file system through linked notes. Works like a charm.
In combination with the “Reveal file in finder” and “Reveal file in navigation” commands, I use file-type links to link to external files/folders from my notes (mostly subfolders).
Whole new experience of managing files.

There is one feature I am really, really missing:

Suppose you have an external link such as:

[CBC Raw Material](file:///Users/heiko/Documents/Projects/CBC/RawMaterial/)

(/Users/heiko/Documents/Projects/CBC is the directory containing the note)

Works fine as long as I do not move/rename the directory that contains the note (which I do when I regularly refactor my structure).
So I would like to have something like

[CBC Raw Material](file://[%NoteDir]/RawMaterial/)

There has been a request for this feature some time ago:

Using relative links for external files

Is there any way to link to files using relative paths? This would be very useful for synced folders. All I could find were ways to link to external files using absolute paths, which would not work here unless the synced folder has the exact same absolute path on all machines. Simple example: synced_folder/ ├── documents/ │ └── file_to_link.pdf └── vault/ └── something.md I now want to link file_to_link.pdf. something.md: # Works [file_to_link.pdf](<file:///C:/Users/me/synced_folder/…

Unfortunately, this has been closed.
This shouldn’t be hard to implement, should it?

Seems to be similar:

Use YAML Frontmatter to define variables in the md document

I would love to see support for this method as well. I use this all the time in iA Writer.