I would like to request that transclusion applies to files outside of a vault.

For my work and personal writing, I have a few folders external to my zettelkasten vault:

…/zettelkasten
…/08 Reference
…/08 Reference/definitions
…/08 Reference/wordstudies

When I write in nvUltra and MultiMarkdown Composer, using their transclusion syntax (double curly braces), I can transclude any file (image or .md…and I think .pdf, though I haven’t tried that yet) into my current article or note.

For example, I can write in my file…

It’s important to remember that audience means {{../08 Reference/definitions/audience.md}}, which is important for this project.

…but in preview and when I export or print, what you see is:

It’s important to remember that audience means audience noun au·​di·​ence | ˈȯ-dē-ən(t)s , ˈä- Definition of audience. 1a : a group of listeners or spectators The concert attracted a large audience. b : a reading, viewing, or listening public The film is intended for a young audience. 2 : a group of ardent admirers or devotees has developed an enthusiastic audience for his ideas 3a : a formal hearing or interview an audience with the pope b : an opportunity of being heard 4 : the act or state of hearing Give me audience and heed what I say., which is important for this project.

(I probably should have picked a better definition :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:)

I do not want want /definitions or /wordstudies in my zettelkasten, but I do want to pull in important information I have created and saved elsewhere.

I hope this is clear!

Thank you for considering my request. :bowing_man:‍♂

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The 1st thing I thought when reading the title was: “great idea, I can transclude markdown notes, incl. to #headers in the notes, that are not in my vault but elsewhere on my computer”.

That is not what the OP has in mind, but that is what I would like to add to this feature request.

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This should be a straightforward extension of my original post: include support for the file:// url scheme in the remote note address.

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Yep, I agree, that’s why I jumped on the opportunity immediately. I do hope they will implement your feature request because it would solve a big issue for me.

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It would be a really great workflow to for example use the new iOS app Highlighted, which allows to easily drag and drop highlights/quotes from for example Apple Books (and other readers) or even camera scanning of a physical book’s page with OCR transcription to capture and organize by book. It has an option to export those quotes as Markdown files.

If Highlighted would live reflect all new highlights and newly made changes to a Highlighted folder in iCloud, which contains live exported copies of all highlights of a books as flat .md files, it would be the perfect source for those “remote” (= not in the main vault folder) notes that contain quotes/highlights.
This approach would be very similar to how Noteplan stores its data or how GoodNotes and Notability offer live backup as a flattened PDF for reference.

Your expansive literature notes, conclusions and self-written summaries would be composed in Obsidian and put into context with other notes. The verbatim quotes from a book could then be transcluded from the book’s quotes/highlights source from the Highlighted folder. Due to Obsidian transcluding by headlines. It would even be possible to update the files maintained by Highlighted by even adding new quotes in between existing ones without breaking the Obsidian transclusions.

Wow, that would be the almost perfect workflow without redundancy, bouble-bookkeeping or copious amounts of copy/paste sessions.

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Question 1: is embedding local markdown files outside of the vault part of this request or should I open a new one? @WhiteNoise

Question 2: are the features mentioned here still missing from Obsidian?

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No, this is not implemented yet, and yes, this FR includes markdown files.