Cmd-click (on Mac) to follow the link in Edit mode. You will be brought to an empty note with title [. Note that clicking on the link in the reference still works, just not in the main text body.
Switch to Reading mode. Click on the link. You will be brought to obsidian’s website.
Expected result
Link works in both Edit and Reading modes.
Actual result
Link only works in Reading mode.
Environment
Fresh install on mac OS 12.2.1.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v0.13.23
Installer version: v0.13.23
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 21.3.0: Wed Jan 5 21:37:58 PST 2022; root:xnu-8019.80.24~20/RELEASE_X86_64 21.3.0
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Safe mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
no prob if this isn’t support yet, but creating the new page with title [ seems like a bug (and keeps generating empty notes around my vault that I need to delete)
No new file created because it is not a link syntax.
Actual result
See above.
Environment
Operating system: Win 11
Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v0.14.5
Installer version: v0.13.31
Operating system: Windows 10 Education 10.0.22581
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: supporter
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Safe mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
Test in Linux desktop and iOS app, same result. Only first party plugins are installed or enabled.
Create a new note.
Create a new reference link [0]: https://example.com
Create a link using the reference link [my link][0]
While still in edit mode click on the new link
a new note is created named [
Expected result
Clicking the link should open the reference link
Actual result
Clicking the link in editor mode creates a new note named [
Environment
Operating system: Linux and iOS
Debug info:
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.0.0
Installer version: v1.0.0
Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:58:49 +0000 6.0.1-arch2-1
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Obsidian Nord
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
Also was going to file a bug on the fact that Reference Style Links [foo][1] are not rendered correctly inside of callouts on iOS mobile app even as of v1.4.3
They just appear “as is” without the clickable link
When you copy-paste from Wikipedia, for example, they have various references as [1][2][3].
In Reading Mode it looks as you would expect, but in Live Preview, that would look like 1[3], and the 1 behaves like a link. When you click on it, it creates a note with [ as a title.
Example in the sandbox:
Note: I had already done the test, so the [ titled page was already there, but it creates it when first clicked.
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.1.15
Installer version: v1.1.9
Operating system: Windows 10 Pro 10.0.22621
Login status: logged in
Catalyst license: insider
Insider build toggle: on
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 0
Plugins enabled: 0
I think that the current behavior is at the very least counterintuitive, for the simple reason that ![text][markdownfile] ![text][markdownfile.md] and ![alternate][pdffilename.pdf] all work in reading mode. (If this is intentional, then I suppose it is not a bug, but it sure does feel like one, which I think should be a hint…)
I addressed this issue by opening a split and having the editor on the left and the “reading view” on the right. However, it is frustrating to have a note with a random title [ hanging around. If this cannot be easily fixed, it would be helpful if Obsidian could at least prevent clicks on [text][ref] links in live preview mode.
