Workaround that lets me use colon in titles. Probably without breaking my filesystem!

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I sometimes like using colons in the titles of notes, which Obsidian (for good reason) can’t handle. So I dug into my unicode browser and found U+2236 ratio, a mathematical symbol that looks just like a colon. You can put this in document titles with no problem! Here it is∶ ∶

(both of the colons above are actually ratio)

I’m on a Mac so I’ve set up a text expansion snippet in Alfred to insert the symbol when I type a short string (I like :; but you could use anything). I believe the native MacOS text expansion can do the same thing. I’m sure other OSes have something comparable.

Possible drawbacks: 1) You need to remember that you used this hack if you are trying to search docs by title. 2) Some OSes might have problems with “nonstandard” characters in filenames.

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Interesting. But when using something like this you should double check if whatever tool your syncing with can handle these filenames.

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