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Vlad B.
Vlad B.

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I Built an Obsidian Plugin for Myself. Someone Actually Used It.

I got an email recently from someone asking if I could add a feature to one of my Obsidian plugins.

The funny part? I built the plugin for myself and never really expected anyone to use it.

The plugin adds folder backlinks to Obsidian, since Obsidian only supports backlinks to notes.

He asked if I could make folder links work inside note properties because he couldn't figure out how to do it himself.

So I built it.

It's now a two-step command palette action: select the folder, then select the note property, and the link gets added.

While I was working on it, I also found a few things that weren't as smooth as they should be, fixed a couple of bugs, and polished some of the rough edges.

It's kind of weird seeing someone use something you built purely because you wanted it yourself.

Maybe I should start taking my side projects a little more seriously.

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