Choose note references: filename or first line (in [[note]], CMD bar, sidebar...)

And to add to the confusion, there's a Title attribute in Front matter 😬

requesting this feature as well!

Just wanted to give my vote to this. Noticed after moving my obsidian notes in, the titles where all wrong :(

Eduard Metzger with this feature 'planned' for over 4 years, could you please let us know if you actually have plans for implementing it?

This is the thing that blocks me from migrating my tasks and notes from Obsidian. I don't want to add a useless title inside my note. Good to see this planned.

Went googling for this again when I was checking out the app after a couple years away. Found my own comment here. Still waiting for this! Eagerly, I might add.

Is there any update on implementing this? I am eager to make the switch to Noteplan, but I don't want my notes locked in (to my knowledge it is not possible to migrate to other apps like Obsidian later if the file names do not correspond with the titles/links). Thanks!

It's 2024! Let's make this happen in the new year! Please!

my daughter just wrote my a script that renamed all my note files to the first line in the note. This worked really well. it made a list of all the files which had invalid filenames which were easy to fix. Now i can use Obsidian and Noteplan together with the exception of the daily notes.

Now I see it would be the perfect combo with Obsidian. But I may not even start something because of this. I don't think you realise that with this feature, I will cancel Obsidian sync to subscribe to NotePlan. I believe people commenting on this topic are high-end customers that value privacy and this features should be taken seriously cause it will drive a lot more people to NP. Now that we have E2EE on iCloud and no intention on using Obsidian community plugins, this combo task-calendar-note-project will be the more productive and safest place on Apple ecosystem. Anyway, keep me posted ASAP when it's done. I'll write an article about it.

This is drawing me away from beloved NP more and more, find myself looking for calendar plugins in logseq and obsidian. I love NotePlan. But managing / keeping two places of notes in sync is exhausting after a while. So I just re-added my vault to noteplan only to find all search results spoiled by excalidraw sketches (svg & json basically). Standard Filename Links would make NotePlan the Masterbrain Application and moving files around would be a breeze (from/to IAPresenter&Writer, logseq,obsidian, git folders you name it). I know you have a lot on the plate , butbut somehow it feels like some basics like folding lists and linking by filename are being pushed back by nice but somehow fancy options since years. Maybe you know we won't leave because your app is just too good. damn :D Thanks for your work Eduard & Team

yes adding the recognition format would be great. I just reinstalled Noteplan on a newly set up computer and got the "let Noteplan update links" option. If there is another checkbox to "let Noteplan update file names as well", the links would stay compatible for now. Of course the current page would be lost, but if it appears on top of a list to click, that would be ok for me.

This has been planned for years. Is there any chance it’s coming anytime soon?

Agree with others. Need this feature to migrate from Obsidian.

I'm sorry if I didn't understand it correctly, but it looks to me like I will have either the ability to have nice [[First Line Title]] in the notes or the ability to use Obsidian but having [[actual_file_title]]. I would like to have both abilities! Maybe internal link representation will use filenames, but the appearance will remain the same (maybe using Andrew Ford's suggestion) ?

YES. I am contemplating moving from Onsidian to Noteplan and this is the big thing preventing me from subscribing and making that move. Add this and you have a customer.

This is the biggest thing that holds me back, personally, from a subscription. I think about it a lot. I posted about it on Reddit today, not knowing it was here. I need to know what my file names are, if the whole purpose is plain text and owning my files. It’s important to me that they’re visible and accessible, and that they’re portable. I want my notes to outlive my job, my note taking app, and maybe even my own life. Anyway. Not to sound melodramatic.

Just wanted to mention that I really want to put my NotePlan files in my obsidian vault with my zettelkasten but this issue is really the main thing preventing that. I’d really love an option in preferences to pick which one so I don’t have to manually duplicate the title every time I make a new note

I would realy like this. One of the great selling points of Noteplan is the fact that the underlying files are not hidden. You can navigate your way around your notes using standard tools. But if the file name no longer represents what the note is about that really degrades the benefit. I like the idea of having the file name field top left as suggested in another feature request. It gives users the flexibility, for example, to create shortened file names if they so desire. If the sidebar could be hot-key toggled between note name and file name that could be useful.

Just want to point, that filenames as references may include directory name as well. It helps in two different cases: 1. You can use the directory name as part of a search query. As example: Let's imagine you have older structure `/projects/proj1/` and notes in this folder. When you want to mention any note `wiki` in this folder, you can write something like `wikiproj1`, because proj1 will be treated like the prefix 2. You have two files with the same name in different folders If the filename is included as a prefix, you can specify which note you want reference to. Also, I included graph about how obsidian deals with notes with the same name. Hope it will be useful.

Will the sidebar show file names or the first line of a note? Will there be a command to change the filename independently of the note's first line?

Related: [Rename Note Links](https://noteplan.canny.io/knowledge-management/p/rename-note…)

Along similar lines, I like Obsidian's ability to allow you to colloquially name your wikilinks. So: [[Linked Note Name|Displayed Title]]. This gives you some flexibility when linking to a note in a paragraph where the text needs to be tweaked to fit the sentence syntax or where the note title is ugly or long and you need it to be abbreviated.