TIL: backslash = inline line break

I accidentally discovered today that Obsidian supports the Common Mark specification of backslashes == hard line breaks https://spec.commonmark.org/0.15/#example-226.

This really helps clean up my tag/metadata “cloud” at in my notes:

> [!todo]+ Admin
> #project /
> #topic/foo /
> #topic/bar \
> [project-label:: hello] \
> [planning-cycle:: this-week]  \
> [planning-area:: work] \
> [metadata-field1:: value1] \
> [metadata-field2:: value2] 

It would be better if I could get those metadata labels to be the same width so it looks more table-like, but small victories and all that :rofl:

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