I’m interested in a setting that would use a note’s H1 or front-matter title instead of or in addition to the filename as the display name everywhere: links, backlinks, graph view, search, etc. How would this be useful: For users who use IDs as filenames or who generally want more concise filenam…

would also be useful if you’ve just arrived from evernote-land via an abalasko yarle conversion, then the option use the first h1 (which yarle adds to the top of the note and contains the evernote note title) is intuitive. then presumably the ability to easily identify and edit the physical file na…

Much of the functionality described in this thread now works with plugins like Front Matter Title . However, the one missing piece is the ability to have the link text part of a Markdown URL: [Link Text](some-path.md) automatically updated when the title changes. I am working on a plugin that suppor…

yes, plugin Front Matter Title should be in the Core… but what about Obsidian Publish? (i got here because now i need a similar plugin for the online published site!)

rcsaquino/obsidian-auto-filename: Auto Filename is an Obsidian.md plugin that automatically renames files in Obsidian based on the first x characters of the file, saving you time and effort. (github.com) [[obsidian picgo-plugin-rename-file]] 自动文件名：根据文件内容自动重命名文件：ObsidianMD — Auto Filename: Automati…

This discussion falls into product (feature request) and tech (implementation). I think the discussion is clear that all agree this is a good feature to have. With the prevalence of meta information with YAML frontmatter and the title property, I think we also have the best-case implementation set…

What’s the current status on displaying the title from the first H1 heading? An optional feature like this would be quite useful. No I don’t want to write yaml frontmatter and install extra plugins, and I don’t want my titles to be forcibly linked to the file name.

@developers A similar app called Notable uses a nifty solution of this (other than using YAML for title): Instead of “:” it uses “꞉” ( Wikipedia ) in the actual file name, but interprets it inside the app (e.g. in header/title) as a regular colon. Instead of “?” it uses “ʔ”. etc As far as the user…

1 for using YAML title as the title of the note at the very top. I suppose that’s what title means, a filename should be used for other purposes. If that would be a core option that would be really great. Anyway good job from the team!

In Apple Notes, note titles always mirror the note’s first line, whether it’s a heading or not. I really, really miss that in Obsidian! :weary: Bet everyone’s here got a heap of “Untitled” notes in their vaults… This shouldn’t ever be a problem.

You can’t really say Apple notes has a concept of files. They are really notes in some kind of database. Apple notes will display the first line of your note as title and name of the note. It doesn’t matter if it’s H1 or normal text. There are plugin that make sure to keep and enforce your title b…

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Use H1 or YAML property "title" instead of or in addition to filename as display name

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