Allow alias for icons

[minhthanh3145]

Hi, first of all I think this is a nice plugin :).

I am using Obsidian to do all sorts of product-related tasks, one of which is user interviewing. I am thinking of using this plugin to quickly capture the context (emotions such as happy, sad) and their life (goals, obstacles, problems, workarounds) during user interviews.

For each of these I associate an icon, like this:

However, when I take notes during interview I probably will think of the term "background", instead of arrow up (which I associate with "background"). So I'd like a way that I can find/insert icons with their aliases. I believe this would simplify the learning curve so that I can adopt this plugin in my practice more easily.

Although most likely I'll just create mental shortcuts to deal with this, and in time I will no longer have a need for this particular feature, I think it's a value worth adding.

Thank you for your time and effort !

[visini]

Interesting use case, many thanks for going in detail. I will think about this some more - customizing both definition (e.g. defining a custom label for a button for referencing it in edit mode) and/or lookup (e.g. defining an alias for a particular icon to retrieve it more easily by searching for alias in the icon picker view) would require some additional config, but it would not be too difficult to implement.

[visini]

See new release

In your settings, add the following alias mappings (example, one per line, in the following format):

excited=ris:EmotionHappy
angry=ris:EmotionUnhappy
embarrassed=ris:EmotionNormal

Then, you can directly type (within single backticks) the respective alias, like so:

`excited`

For your workflow you can even abbreviate further, e.g.:

ex=ris:EmotionHappy
an=ris:EmotionUnhappy
em=ris:EmotionNormal

And the corresponding icon will be rendered in preview mode. Hope this is useful!