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Auto-complete to missing notes

Open sotn3m opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Please Select if your Request is Either something new or an Enhancement

  • [X] Enhancement of an existing Feature.
  • [ ] Request of a new feature. wo

Please select the area your request applys to. (Multiple selections are Possible)

  • [ ] Onboard. Initial vault setup and import/export pods
  • [X] Create. Note creation, lookup, snippets and templates
  • [X] Retrieve. Backlinks, references, graph view
  • [ ] Structure. Refactoring, multi-vault and schemas
  • [ ] Publish. Sharing your repo with the world
  • [ ] Misc (Choose this if your not sure)

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

Not really.

Describe the solution you'd like

Auto-complete of links ([[link]]) does not include links to pages that do not exist yet. In other words, if one page references [[something]], I would expect that once I type [[some elsewhere, the auto complete would show me something among proposals even though that page does not exist.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Command createMissingLinkedNotes can be considered, but it will result in creating plenty of unnecessary pages that do not need any content. This is even more true if an original link would seize to exist.

The way I see it, there are such scenarios where the usability of certain pages is proved only once they prove to be popular.

I believe it is even more important when pages are used as "tags". It seems to be a popular concept among Obsidian users.

Additional context

This is a feature that can be found in tools like Obsidian or logseq. It would be interesting to see the count of links to pages that do not exist yet.

sotn3m avatar Sep 22 '21 20:09 sotn3m

Thank you for submitting the issue.

This sounds like a useful feature! We'll definitely track this and see what we can do about it.

Pinging @SeriousBug for completion provider related enhancement.

hikchoi avatar Sep 23 '21 22:09 hikchoi

Curious to know if there is any update on this.

Mjvolk3 avatar Jul 30 '22 22:07 Mjvolk3