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Title change not taken into account when inserting literature note link #110

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Elaws opened this issue Aug 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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Title change not taken into account when inserting literature note link #110

Elaws opened this issue Aug 9, 2021 · 1 comment
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@Elaws
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@Elaws Elaws commented Aug 9, 2021

Environment

Windows 10
Obsidian 0.12.12
Citations 0.4.3

Description

If you change the title of a literature note and then insert a link to it, citations plugin insert a link to another note with the title from the template.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Create or open a literature note with citations plugin.
  2. Change its title.
  3. With citations plugin, insert a note link to this literature note.
  4. The link does not point to the correct literature note (it uses the "old" title from the template, not the "new" edited title).
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@hans hans commented Aug 31, 2021

This is the expected behavior. To accomplish what you request, the plugin would need to maintain a database separate from the Obsidian vault content, tracking mappings between citations and their titles. I think this is undesirable for interoperability / sustainability reasons: other tools accessing the vault / working with the Markdown export in 5--20 years would be need to be aware of and accommodate this extra complexity.

For this reason I'm declaring wontfix -- but if you have a strong and general use case in which it makes sense to manually change literature note titles, please share and I will reconsider.

@hans hans closed this Aug 31, 2021
@hans hans added the wontfix label Aug 31, 2021
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