Obsidian links (redux)

Previously:
– Things: cross-link to Obsidian and back
– Obsidian tip: link directly to a header

I'm going to start creating 'permalinks' for each of my Obsidian notes using the ^block syntax.

I link to my notes prolifically from outside Obsidian. My primary use-case is Things, where every project has this block at the top (mirrored in the Obsidian note).¹

If that Obsidian URL is the traditional format, where you link to the title of the note, it's very fragile. My note titles are fluid; I shouldn't be afraid to change them.

So I use the Advanced URI plugin which allows you to link to a ^block, and at the top of every note I create a permalink using the ID of the note.

Note that right-clicking on the block and selecting Copy URI for current block gives you a longer URI which contains the note's title. If you're strict about making your block identifiers unique – easy when they mirror the ID of the note they're in – you can remove that part of the URI, leaving it much neater.

obsidian://adv-uri?vault=D25%20JDex&block=50105

– because now I can leave that URI string in the templates for both Obsidian notes and Things projects, and all I need to do each time is change the last couple of digits of that block ID. So this only takes a few seconds and is low-friction.

A note on the experimental 50105~14.54 syntax

That's the note: it's experimental. There's a healthy debate over on Discord and there'll be a blog post shortly.

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