Backlink Full Path

Obsidian's Backlinks pane lists each backlink by note name alone. If you keep a Meeting note in three different project folders — which is the natural way to organize them — the pane shows three identical rows and no way to tell which is which without opening each one.

This plugin shows each backlink's full path instead, so the list identifies its notes.

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Demo vault

The documentation is a demo vault. Every feature has a note that explains what it does and why you would want it, with three same-named notes already in place so the ambiguity is in front of you.

Start reading here — it is plain markdown, so it works on GitHub with nothing installed.

A copy of the vault ships with every release. You can access it via any of the following:

1. Running the Backlink Full Path: Open demo vault command.
2. Downloading backlink-full-path-demo-vault.zip from the Releases. It unzips into a single backlink-full-path-demo-vault-<version> folder.
3. Browsing its source in demo-vault/ in this repository.

What it does

• Full paths in the Backlinks pane, so notes sharing a name are distinguishable — shown side by side with Obsidian's default. 01 Backlink full path
• Every setting, by the key it is stored under. 02 Settings

Installation

The plugin is available in the official Community Plugins repository.

Beta versions

To install the latest beta release of this plugin (regardless if it is available in the official Community Plugins repository or not), follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have the BRAT plugin installed and enabled.
2. Click Install via BRAT.
3. An Obsidian pop-up window should appear. In the window, click the Add plugin button once and wait a few seconds for the plugin to install.

Debugging

By default, debug messages for this plugin are hidden.

To show them, run the following command in the DevTools Console:

window.DEBUG.enable('backlink-full-path');

For more details, refer to the documentation.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING to get set up.

Support

My other Obsidian resources

See my other Obsidian resources.

License

© Michael Naumov