Yep - and since the stated use case is letting you "quickly reference notes in your vault from other places such as hand-written notes." - the second you re-organize or move a note, all those codes scattered across computers and other mediums are permanently invalid with basically no practical means of automating referential shortcode updates so that's "fun".

I'm a very heavy daily user of Obsidian with about 8000+ personal notes organized across a fairly deep nested folder structure and can't envision a situation where I'd need something like this.

Littering my publicly accessible papers / blogs / etc. with highly idiosyncratic Obsidian shortcodes that only I have the means to access seems of limited use.

Hopefully the author will write another post going into specific use-cases for this extension.

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Ezhik 2 days ago | parent [-]

(developer here)

Thanks for the feedback! I guess this plugin is a bit specific to how I use Obsidian [1], as I don't rename my notes quite as often as others do.

As I mentioned in the post, my main use case is being able to quickly reference notes in my hand-written journal. I've also used it a few times in some personal shell scripts.

Probably not a very useful plugin if you already live entirely in your Obsidian vault, though - in there good old [[wiki links]] are much more useful.

I've left a few comments so far on the rename problem, but yeah, it's a hard one to solve. I'll try to think of ways to improve it.

[1]: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/

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IncandescentGas a day ago | parent [-]

Would you consider renaming the note to contain a reference to the generated code? Such as "Thoughts on Hedgehogs.md" becomes "Thoughts on Hedgehogs [AB-99].md"

This preserves your goal of having the system rightfully not need another source of truth outside the markdown files, but also lets the markdown file carry the identifier across renames without adding a YAML block.

And it lets you find the note in the "open note" dialog box by typing the code, so no other kind of search interface is needed. Or even to find the note with any other filesystem utility if you have your reference code.

Were you inspired by the Zettelkasten Method for your plugin?

	▲	Ezhik a day ago \| parent [-]
		Hmm... Not a fan of that approach. Would mess things up for my personal use case, at least, making the names less nice. I'm leaning on having some sort of a vault-specific database tracking existing codes across renames as an addition to the existing mechanism. I actually do like the idea of adding tags in the frontmatter, but then it'd become impossible to tag files and folders. If only we had resource forks. As for inspiration, I'm not really much of a note-taking system person. My system is just hyperlinking lots of notes together: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/ - this little plugin just helps with that outside of my vault.