I created a file named a, and in other notes I referenced it like this: [[a|a]].
My intention was to keep the displayed text stable, so that if I renamed the file later, the visible label (a) would not change.
However, Obsidian doesn’t behave as I expected.
When I rename a to b, the link changes from [[a|a]] to [[b|b]], instead of what I expected: [[b|a]].
In other words, both the target and the display text are updated, but I only want the target to change while the display text stays the same.
The only workaround I’ve found is to add an alias 'a' to the file. While this works, it feels unnecessarily cumbersome.
I believe the correct behavior for links in the form of [[a|a]] should be:
- Update only the target (the part before the
|) - Keep the display text (the part after the
|) unchanged.