Quick Notes

The following plugin is a very early stage Obsidian plugin meant to accelerate the speed of note taking and linking with additional features. The core features are:

• Find Possible Aliases: By clicking the merge icon on the left side, a list of all display names used for the current page but not added as an alias are shown with options to add them to the aliases metadata of that note.
• Solidify Links: By clicking the icon on the left side, one can take all the links to a current page and change them so that if the link is [[XYZ]] it is converted to [[XYZ|XYZ]] ensuring that even if this note's name is changed that the display names of its links will not be automatically changed but the actual link to the page will.
• Silently Create Note: To avoid needing to pan to another page, highlight a selection, right click and select this option which will create the note but not pan over to the page.
• Silently Create Note with Different Name: Same as silently create note but with the ability to change the name of the note
• Link to Note as Alias: To link a display name to some alias and possibly add it into the aliases attribute, highlight a selection, right click and select this option.

Find Possible Aliases

• Called by clicking the merge icon on the life side
• Will find every instance of the current file, e.g. MyFile, and see all times it is used as the root note such as [[MyFile|MyFileOtherName]]
• Any display names which are not currently represented as an alias are shown in a modal with the option to add these aliases for easier future linking of files

Solidify Links

• Called by clicking the shield on the left side
• Will change all links from [[MyFile]] to [[MyFile|MyFile]]

Silenty Create Note

• Called by highlighting a section, right clicking then calling "Silently Create Note"
• Creates a new note with the given name in the background instead of panning over to it

Silently Create Note with Different Name

• Called by highlighting a section, right clicking then calling "Silently Create Note with Different Name"
• Brings up a modal that asks one to:
  • Specify the name of the silent note to create
  • Specify whether the highlighted text should be added as an alias
• In the case that the note is already present, an alert will come up that the note already exists but the link will still be added

Link to Note as Alias

• Called by highlighting a section, right clicking then calling "Link to Note as Alias"
• Brings up a modal that asks one to:
  • Change the display name
  • Specify the file name, you can either write it in or when you click on the text it will also bring up a suggestion menu of current names
  • The option of whether to add the display name as an alias