Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

Re:Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local ... by perchard on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:12PM (#23325454)

this is awesome! i see the 'zettelkasten link fixer' in the markdown format importer ("Fixes [[UID]] links to full [[UID File Name]].") - any plans/thoughts on just supporting [[UID]]? this seems less brittle to me in that you won't break all of your backlinks if you change the (non-ID) part of the filename.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local ... by ericax on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @12:19PM (#23325559)

Obsidian will auto-update all backlinks when you rename it.

Essentially, we think wikilinks should identify the destination exactly and should not perform a search instead.

Thankfully it's all just plain text at the end of the day, and it's not hard to do some text processing to convert both ways.

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local ... by jacobsenmd on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @07:39PM (#23331556)

+1 for this request, which would allow better interoperability with "The Archive" (from zettelkasten.de). I built my Zettelkasten links in "The Archive" using [[UID]]. Obsidian looks fantastic and I'd love to give it a try but my existing links do not work. As a side note, the other feature from "The Archive" I miss is the ability to create buttons for custom searches in the left sidebar.

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