Obsidian note aliases

[hi-learn-triz-and-usit]

See the Obsidian docs for motivation and suggested syntax.

[srid]

Is Obsidian the only application that supports this? For eg., what happens if I use a notebook with Obsidian-style aliases in VSCode with vscode-memo or related extension? The alias link is considered broken, right?

What's the implication for static site generation (or is there no impact here?) ?

[hi-learn-triz-and-usit]

• vscode-memo does not: Support page alias svsool/memo#256
• dendron does: https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/d758fe38-558c-4f20-a091-cac146a781cb.html#adding-a-link-alias
• org-roam does: https://www.orgroam.com/manual.html#File-Titles
• roam... doesn't seem to, but I honestly can't tell with their documentation. It seems to be a highly requested feature, though

The implication for static site generation may be about what to generate as the link text; that may end up being a separate issue, though.

[srid]

The dendron one you linked to talks about link text (i.e, [[foo|some text]]), not aliases.

You can add an alternative title to the link by creating an alias. For example, add the project| to your link to change the name in the preview

So it looks like only Obsidian and org-roam supports this feature.

[j-steinbach]

Wikipedia does this (Redirects), and in Dendron it is on the list.

Aliases are very useful for abbreviations (UK -> United Kingdom), of for multi-language topics. For example I write my notes in either english or german and want both to link to the same file (for example a note called homework might also have the aliases Hausaufgaben and hausis.

[j-steinbach]

Another useful application of aliases is the realm of science, e.g. bibliography. If I have a note/paper called Emanote: Spiritual successor to neuron, based on Ema, then I want to alias it to srid21emanote. This allows me to turn any mentions of srid21emanote into links, without having to write the whole cumbersome title of the paper.