Support external links to files

[a-rock-lobster]

Problem

I think I'm correct in thinking that there is no way to link to locally stored files (outside of obsidian such as PDF docs).

My personal use case is I love the idea of using DataLoom to keep on top of my reading history. Currently, I have a big bullet point list of bibliographic references, links to respective files and tags. It doesn't seem to work to embed links to files in Dataloom.

Solution

Within Obsidian it is possible to insert pathnames to files (I'm on mac if of any relevance) as links which can be particularly neat if done with /[text]/(pathname). Is it possible to utilise this feature of obsidian within dataloom?

Additional details

I hope I managed to explain myself sufficiently 😅

[decaf-dev]

Hey @a-rock-lobster. Thanks for this issue. I didn't know you could link to external files outside of Obsidian. I will need to try that.

[a-rock-lobster]

You're welcome. I use it with the Paste url into Selection addon. Works really well. I just paste the path to a file (i.e. book) onto some text (i.e. book title).

[murazi]

My needs are much simpler. When pasting a hyperlink into a table, markdown syntax, title + hyperlink: [](https://abcd.com) instead of just writing https://abcd.com

[a-rock-lobster]

It's the same process, except with a url instead of a pathname. Both work within Obsidian.