Taking notes in multiple languages

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Hey guys. I’m new to obsidian. I use both english and portuguese on a daily basis, and there are things I think it’s better or feel like taking notes in english and others in portuguese. It’s pretty 50-50

Anyone here has a good idea for how to handle that?

I’m still learning the tool. I liked the idea of aliases. It would be nice to name files in both languages when needed using aliases. The issue is aliases are not searchable with file: <<alias>>. And just typing the name without file: seems like it shows results in a confusing way to some extent. I think it doesn’t prioritize bringing the files that are the target of the alias as top results

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(Moved from Knowledge Management to Help.)

I’d never noticed this before. It might be worth filing a feature request to make aliases accessible in search (if one doesn’t already exist).

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I’ve added to this request

Ultimately I’m not sure if it’s worth to keep creating aliases in multiple languages for everything. It’s a lot of friction to create a note

What could possibly work is if you could configure some languages so that during search, it would auto-translate your search and also show results from the translations. Very prone to error, but I think it could work

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