Obsidian @People

Obsidian plugin to add that familiar @-to-tag-someone syntax:

When you hit enter on a suggestion, it'll create a link that looks like this:

The author was [[@Rich Hickey]]

and leave the cursor at the end.

Options

There's not a lot to configure here, but they are important:

1. Where are the people files?

You probably want to group the people files in a folder.

I usually do something like this:

People/
	@Rich Hickey.md
	@Rich Harris.md

You can configure that in settings to point to somewhere else, like Reference/People/ or whatever makes sense.

2. Explicit link structure?

By default, the plugin will insert the simple version:

[[@Rich Hickey]]

But you might rather make that explicit, in which case you can enable "explicit links" and they'll look like this instead:

[[People/@Rich Hickey.md|@Rich Hickey]]

3. Last name grouping?

For my personal Obsidian vaults, I have a lot of people with my same last name, so I put them in sub-folders for organization.

You can toggle the "last name folder" option, and it'll do that in the links.

The earlier example folder structure would be:

People/
	Hickey/
		@Rich Hickey.md
	Harris/
		@Rich Harris.md

And then the inserted link would look like:

[[People/Hickey/@Rich Hickey.md|@Rich Hickey]]

Note: figuring out what the "last name" is (or if it even has one) is really complicated! This plugin takes a very simply approach: if you split a name by the space character, it'll just pick the last "word". So for example "Charles Le Fabre" would be "Fabre" and not "Le Fabre".

I'm open to better implementations that don't add a lot of complexity, just start a discussion.

Conflicts

Several plugins have conflicts with using the @ symbol, please look at the Github issues for plugin conflicts to see if yours has been resolved.

License

Published and made available freely under the Very Open License.