This could be great news! I’m back after a very long hiatus hoping that Obsidian would evolve into something capable of using atomic notes for everything with links as first class citizens, and it’s almost there!
There are a ton of new plugins providing more Notion-like features which is extremely exciting. Especially since Notion becomes more and more buggy and still has no offline mode! I’m also an advocate for the ownership of personal data and have been working on a web3 startup to make self-custody of tokens and data easy for the everyone, unlocking a new paradigm where apps connect to you and not the other way around.
I’d like to plea once again for links to have first class citizen support within Obsidian and support for them in front matter. Some plugins support the key:: value format, but it looks like many still only support front matter (forgive me if I am mistaken here), causing incompatibility and a bifurcation of standards. In my opinion, this was simply a side effect of the community being forced to find a work-around for their YAML needs. For example, it may have been more appropriate to define in YAML itself which of the YAML keys should be show in read view instead of the key:: value work-around.
There seems to be quite a lot of demand for my original proposal. I’d love to jump on a call with you @WhiteNoise and discuss the possibilities of simple and compatible solutions. There are lots of great solutions proposed within this thread and I’m hopeful a simple and elegant solution will be implemented.