YAML Property also spawns a hub page full of backlinks

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What I’m trying to do

Okay, I admit my heading is terrible. I really wasn’t sure how to succinctly describe what I’m trying to achieve in 10 words or less. Apologies.

I am a second-time Obsidian user and first-time Catalyst member. I use Obsidian to help me run my consulting business. When I imported my notes from Notion, some of them came across with a feature I really like. Others didn’t, for reasons that are beyond me. Or maybe something I did in the early days after my return triggered this feature on some but not others.

I have multiple YAML properties set up to help me segment my notes by Client and Project. Both of these YAMLs are lists from which I choose one or multiple. Some of the ‘Project’ property values – “Strategy”, “Brand Mktg”, for example – have become linked, and clicking on them takes me to a note which has all the backlinks to other notes which share this property. That’s a useful feature for me.

Some do not – like “Press Release”, “Client Mgmt”, “Reporting”, etc.

I realise I can produce tables or lists using Bases or Dataview, but I really like the organic linking that allows me to make notes on these Hub Pages.

EG, my “Press Release” hub page could have the file template for all press releases. My “Reporting” Hub Page could have the monthly report template, etc.

How do I generate Hub Pages for all Project properties?

Also, in future when I create a new YAML Project property, such as “Financials”, or whatever, I’d like that to also spawn a Hub Page.

Things I have tried

I did search this forum, and google, and reddit, but didn’t find anything. I suspect the trouble I had coming up with a succinct way to describe this feature may have hampered my search. So apologies again if the solution is already documented here. Any help you can provide lighting the way forward would be very much appreciated.

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You need to enter the property as a link, not just text, so [[note name]]

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Hi Naranya, thanks for your reply. It’s not really what I’m after.

Perhaps my title should have been "I want YAML properties to also be a hub page with backlinks to all notes with the same YAML property. "

I tried your suggestion for “Press Release” and while it did create a new note called “Press Release”, it did not populate with backlinks to other notes with the same property.

I’ll keep researching.

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You can view the backlinks to any note. Core plugins > Backlinks has an option to show them at the bottom of the note, but this is global setting, so it will affect all notes. You can also see them in the right sidebar. Finally, you can create a base that shows backlinks to current file and insert it in hub pages, which is probably the most elegant solution to always show backlinks, but only in select notes. (file.hasLink(this.file) is the base filter you want for this). Is that what you’re after?