Obsidian plugin which integrates your academic reference manager with the Obsidian editor. Search your references from within Obsidian and automatically create and reference literature notes for papers and books.
Right now, if the cite key contains unsafe characters for a path, the displayed title for the Markdown link has those characters replaced with _. This is not necessary and obscures the actual cite key. Details below.
This is correct for Wiki style links, which must use the path name, but this is not necessary for Markdown links, which could use the actual cite key as the displayed title while still using the safe title for the path name.
Right now, if the cite key contains unsafe characters for a path, the displayed title for the Markdown link has those characters replaced with
_. This is not necessary and obscures the actual cite key. Details below.The function
getTitleForCitekeycreates a title for the literature note, in part by replacing unsafe characters in the cite key: https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin/blob/2edeeceaf5f38de90f77f111ab46d24eef3e0bfa/src/main.ts#L306-L311The function
insertLiteratureNoteLinkuses this title to create the link to the note:https://github.com/hans/obsidian-citation-plugin/blob/2edeeceaf5f38de90f77f111ab46d24eef3e0bfa/src/main.ts#L383-L393
This is correct for Wiki style links, which must use the path name, but this is not necessary for Markdown links, which could use the actual cite key as the displayed title while still using the safe title for the path name.