Search result to have option to tag or backlink keywords

Feature requests
1

Similar to the unlinked mentions view has a button for you to create links, there should be buttons to create tags or backlinks in the search results.

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2

What would such created link point to? To file in last active pane?
Isn’t this better solved by aliases introduced in Obsidian Release v0.9.16 ?

3

I’m sorry if I’m misunderstanding your question, but the request is for the same result to happen as when you click “Link.” It would automatically turn that selection into a backlink.

I am requesting that the same should happen in the search results for when searching for backlinks and for tags (so for tags, it would just turn that selection into a tag).

5

Possible scenario:

Following files exist:

  • ObsidianVault/folder1/sometext.md
  • ObsidianVault/folder2/sometext.md
  • ObsidianVault/ActiveFile.md

Each of the files above has has YAML header:

---
aliases: ["SomeAnotherText"]
---

There is also file “ObsidianVault/FileWithMatch.md” which contains text:
“sometext, SomeAnotherText”

Only the file “ActiveFile.md” is open in active pane, other files are closed.

Linking from backlinks pane unambiguously creates link [[ActiveFile|SomeAnotherText]].

When you search “sometext”, then it is not clear which of the following do you want to create:

  • #sometext
  • [[sometext]]
  • [[ActiveFile|sometext]]
  • [[folder1/sometext]]
  • [[folder2/sometext]]
  • (or corresponding markdown-style versions of the link)

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