tags	aliases	created	updated
type/note locale/en/gb status/wip		2023-11-08 10:44:57 +0200	2024-03-09 22:13:32 +0100

[!danger] Note to myself: README.md IS A HARD LINK TO AN OBSIDIAN NOTE!

Description

OtherWise: Aliases and links

Current Goal

• First step: create new repo from template ✅ 2023-10-30
• Add a link to word, selection or link ✅ 2024-03-09
• [/] Make Link: Search link address, allow user to replace it if there are many matching pages 🛫 2024-03-09

Features

• [/] Create or Update link
  • Search by title (default) ✅ 2024-03-09
  • Add command to also search by alias
    • Create or Update link (default, search by title); Update link, search by alias
    • Update link by alias should be shown iff token is a link with alias
    • Use checking to make sure only valid commands are presented
  • Should work for plain words ✅ 2024-03-09
  • Should work for a current markdown link as well ✅ 2024-03-09
  • Should work for a current wiki-link as well ✅ 2024-03-09
  • If there is only 1 hit, use it ✅ 2024-03-09
  • If there are more, make user choose ✅ 2024-03-09
  • Same for selection (multiple/partial words) ✅ 2024-03-09
    • Condition: Cannot have line breaks ✅ 2024-03-09
  • Use [[OmniSearch]] if it's available ✅ 2024-03-09
    • Use default search otherwise
    • Fuzzy search with setting
      • 2024-03-09: currently fuzzy search is always enabled; setting is already available
  • Add setting to show Edit link dialog before applying changes
• Remove link
  • 2 commands
    • Remove link, keep title
    • Remove link, keep alias
  • Use checking to make sure only valid commands are presented
• [/] Edit link
  • [/] Dialog with link text, link address
  • Toggle between wiki-link and markdown link
  • Remove link (keep title/alias)
  • What else...?
• Find all aliases in use for a page
  • Option to add all of them to frontmatter
• All links in page
  • See all links in page | all selected links in a dialog
  • Options to open all links, or open them individually
• Find broken wiki links/local markdown links
• Redirect/Alias Notes!
  • Support pages with only a title, a link, and (maybe) frontmatter
  • Ideally these pages should not be open by default, they should open their target page instead
  • They would work very similarly to [[Logseq]] aliases
  • Consider creating Alias Notes as a different file type (not .md)
    • That could make it easier to implement the redirect
    • See MeepTech/obsidian-custom-file-extensions-plugin
  • Check impact on other OtherWise proposed features
    • Something similar could be used to [[#^cache|cache]] external links! But then they would have content
• Batch update links with alias
  • From a note A, user can choose which alias should be used for A, in each note referencing A
    • Batch change all references to A
  • Also choose a different alias for each link
• Default alias
  • Mark one alias as the default on Note A, which will be used whenever a link is created to Note A
    • Might be limited only to OtherWise commands
• Archive external link(s)
  • See legacy plugin GitHub - tomzorz/obsidian-link-archive: Link Archive plugin for Obsidian
  • Add commands to
    • archive 1 link
    • all links in page
    • all links in folder
    • all links in vault
  • Use a smarter method - maybe an internal link ^cache
• 2024-03-01T10:26:40+01:00
• VIM Surround support!
  • Can be used WITH or WITHOUT vim bindings
  • Should support everything that vim surround does, including removing surrounds
  • Be aware of Obsidian peculiarities, specially the wiki-link format
  • [!] 2024-03-01T10:25:54+01:00 I don't think this has much to do with [[OtherWise]] though... Should be in a separate plugin

Similar Plugins

• Check out Metadata Menu, pay attention about opportunities/feature conflicts

References