Wikilink

• not compatible with GitHub md preview / default markdown links
• compatible with GitHub wiki
• several static site generators support it
• has been around for a while
• reddit post describing the pro’s
• allows moving files around without relative links breaking

wikilinks are easier to type and read, but they aren’t part of the markdown standard

a table comparing Wikilinks and standard markdown links

Wikipedia entry for wikilinks

this article from ia-writer explains wikilinks with nice gifs

Backlinks¶

• Obsidian
  • Obsidian is an app to store notes, focused on linking notes to each other with wikilink & #hashtags
• Intro to Obsidian
  • Learn wikilink
    This is the key to getting good at note taking in Obsidian.
• Hypothesis review
  • bidirectional sync would allow me to add wikilink to the notes, linking Obsidian notes to my web notes
• interwikilinks plugin
  • What if wikilink to other websites just worked?
• Obsidian alternatives
  • wikilink
• reducing note folders
  • The fastest way of writing new notes is to write wikilink to non-existing notes.
    But this new note is created in the same folder as my current note, inheriting the current category. So if I write a new note for a different category, I have to move it.
• Obsidian special formatting
  • Github wikilink
• link unlinked websites
  • you browse a public website, e.g. a documentation page, and come across a term you don’t understand. If only the site used wikilink !
• github wikis in obsidian & interwikilinks
  • [!NOTE] conclusion
    I’ll use separate vaults and normal wikilink
• note-link-janitor
  • note-link-janitor is a batch script to add backlink at the bottom for all wikilink in a file of markdown files.
• Obsidian redirect for notes
  • enable wikilink to a single source, for non wikilinks. When you update the source URL in the note, it auto updates everywhere because of wikilinks.
• CONTRIBUTING
  • Markdown wikilink aren’t supported by GitHub preview, but are heavily used in Obsidian & other wiki apps. The site theme supports conversion, so please use wikilinks in all files, except files meant to be read on GitHub like the [[public-brain/### Public notes about game dev & anything else]]
• hashtag synonyms
  • Some say to use tags for note statuses instead of linking. Since linking should always be decisive with wikilink
• link type
  • if you could add a type we could say the link is of type family.
  • wikilink
• logseq & obsidian img embed
  • Obsidian image embeds aren’t compatible with logseq when using wikilink in Obsidian.
• my note naming convention
  • use wikilinks
• submodule wikilink clashes
  • in note B, we use wikilink to link to note A: [[note A]]
    Even if Obsidian would handle this correctly, it would change the wikilink in the submodule to a relative path. [[submodule 1/]]
    the submodule is now out of sync, we can’t push files back
• wikilinks in code comments
  • support wikilink in code comments.