I wanted to use front matter for metadata, but found you could not include links to other notes in the YAML. I was okay with that as long as I could create a link within my document using the front matter data value; however, I had difficulty finding a way to create a dynamic link to another note.
I finally found out how to construct this type of link and hope this will help others.
Here’s a simple example for a D&D character. The character race is indicated as “Human” in the front matter, and I want to create a link to the “Human.md” note.
This will create the text “Character Race: Human” where the word “Human” is a link to the file “Human.md” as you see below.
Apologies for embedding images, but I don’t know how to post text without having it reformatted and some of the details lost. Make sure to include a “`” at the beginning and end of the expression. This is the non-shifted version of the “~” key.
Dataview is the only community plugin I have enabled. I don’t believe it is required for this to work, but if you have any issues you might consider enabling Dataview.
This allows me to accomplish what I wanted to do and still use front matter instead of inline metadata link assignment (E.g. “race:: [[Human]]”) somewhere else in the document. This might seem obvious to many of you, but I hope it will help others like me that are new to this.
If anyone knows a simpler or better approach, please let me know.