Default link-title for a zettel

[ouuan]

Now the title of the linked zettel is used as the link text. But the title of an article is different from the link text. I usually use full titles as the title of an article, but use short titles in links. As a result, I use custom link text nearly everywhere, and when I link to the same zettel, the custom link texts are usually the same, which is a big waste of time.

It will be much better if we can set the default link-title for a zettel, so that when being linked the link-title is used as the link text.

Proposed syntax: In the frontmatter, add a linkTitle field:

---
date: 2021-07-26T19:04
linkTitle: a short title
---

# A Full Title

This could be a plugin.

[srid]

This is already supported. Replace linkTitle with title. A PR to mention this in the documentation is welcome! https://neuron.zettel.page/linking

[ouuan]

It seems that the title attribute is displayed in the zettel page, and it's rather an alternative of # title instead of a way to set the default link text. Is this a bug?

[srid]

Hmm. Right. If you want the page title to use actual title (even if title meta exists, which is used in the link regardless), then that's a new feature to be implemented (not as plugin, but perhaps as a default behaviour).

EDIT: PR on this welcome.