Obsidian gets folding

Posted by bvasconcelos
May 26, 2020 at 09:26 PM

Hi @Lucas, in VoodooPad, you may remember, one has to input each alias separately. What I like about this feature in DEVONthink is being able to input them all at once using a comma separated string. A year or so ago I spent some time inputing aliases to my glossary and all I had to do was gather the inflected forms in a special dictionary, apply a BBEdit text factory to clean it up and organize it and send it directly to the alias field of the relevant file using applescript. I made a Keyboard Maestro for this so for each file/concept this took less than 5 seconds. I don’t know of any other app that can do something like this! If you move to using a mac again and are interested, I would more than happy to share with you the scripts and materials (I actually have a github repo called DEVONthink 3 which should be easy to find).

Now I will shut up about this, since this subject does indeed belong to another thread.

Lucas wrote:
Although the discussion of automatic links and aliases should perhaps be
>a separate topic, I will just mention I, like @bvasconcelos, find both
>automatic links and aliases highly useful, especially for my
>anthropological work that involves lots of spelling variants. And it’s
>true that automatic links are a bit different, though definitely
>related, to Roam’s “unlinked references” feature. ConnectedText has
>automatic links (optionally), but it does not have a good solution for
>aliases. VoodooPad has an excellent implementation of both features. I
>did not know that Devonthink has both these features, so once I get back
>on a Mac I will certainly try it out. (Thanks, @bvasconcelos, for the
>helpful info!) WikidPad, for what it’s worth, also has automatic
>linking, and I seem to remember that it had some ability to handle
>aliases. I believe there are also plugins for some other wiki systems,
>such as TiddlyWiki and DokuWiki, that attempt to implement these
>features. I’m delighted that there appears to be a surge of interest and
>development with regard to this sort of software.