Could you clarify a little further: Which part of your process is actually creating the file? Or does the file already exist when you are writing the link to it with your hotkey?
Thank you, yes that does make it clear! My setup does not automatically create files when I link to them, so I I can’t test this, but do you get any auto-completion suggestions if you type the | after the file name? Or do you get any if you wait a couple seconds to type | after making the file? Depending on how your new files are automatically created, you could try adding an alias in the YAML frontmatter and see if that shows up as an autocomplete suggestion after you type the |. I do expect it will take a couple seconds after file creation for Obsidian to get the alias into its auto-completion suggestion pool.