Auto Link Creator

An Obsidian plugin that automatically creates links and notes from your writing. Unlike other linkers that only replace text matching existing notes, this plugin suggests new links — driven by list templates, repeated phrases, and NLP keyword detection — and shows you a preview before applying anything. Supports aliases, pluralization, and works great alongside obsidian-automatic-linker.

Features

Template-based linking

Write definition lists using templates; the plugin turns them into wiki links and creates the target notes with content.

Default templates (configurable, first match wins):

- {{Link Name}} ({{Link Alias}}) - {{Link Content}}
- {{Link Name}} ({{Link Alias}})
- {{Link Name}} - {{Link Content}}

Example input:

- Risk Appetite - Level of risk accepted by a company in terms of quantity and severity.
- Access control systems (ACS)
  - Identification
  - Authentication
  - Authorization

Result:

- [[Risk Appetite]] - Level of risk accepted by a company in terms of quantity and severity.
- [[Access Control Systems|ACS]]
  - Identification
  ...

A note Risk Appetite.md is created containing the content, plus an acs alias on Access Control Systems.

NLP keyword detection

Scans note prose for repeated phrases worth linking:

• Frequency counting with stop-word removal (plus your own extra stop words)
• Lemmatization and singularization: Cow ⇄ Cows, Party ⇄ Parties, Changed/Changing → Change
• Variants are added as aliases so all forms resolve to the same note
• Code blocks are skipped

Linking to existing notes

Instead of only creating new notes, the plugin can detect phrases that match existing note names or aliases and link them — either by exact text match or by NLP root/variant match (cows links to a note named Cow).

Preview before applying

Destructive operations go through a preview modal first: see every suggested link, which file it came from and why it was suggested, select/deselect items, then apply. Undo is supported (updated notes can be opened in background leaves for native Ctrl-Z rollback).

Commands

With Link on save enabled, the active note is processed automatically when saved.

Settings

• Templates — line patterns with {{Link Name}}, {{Link Alias}}, {{Link Content}}
• Keyword sources — enable/disable template-based and NLP-based keywords; add extra stop words
• Ignore code blocks
• Link on save, Open files for undo
• Capitalize names — capitalize each word of note names/link text
• Existing notes — enable, choose exact vs NLP-root matching, optional on-save trigger

New notes are created in the same folder as the source note (or the highest common folder / vault root in vault-wide runs). If a note already exists, its content is appended instead.

Installation

From community plugins

1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Browse.
2. Search for Auto Link Creator.
3. Click Install, then Enable.

Manual install

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release.
2. Copy them into <Vault>/.obsidian/plugins/auto-link-creator/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Community plugins.

Or via BRAT: add AutumnEvans418/Obsidian-Auto-Link-Creator as a custom repository.

Development

• npm install
• npm run dev — watch build
• npm run test — unit tests (node --test)
• npm run lint / npm run build — lint + typecheck + production bundle

License

0-BSD — see LICENSE.