Page alias

[TimonBurckhardt]

Alias for a page: [alias]([[page]])

EDIT: aliases were implemented this way: #1326 (comment).

[juniusfree]

Also, alias for a block: [alias](((block-id))))

[juniusfree]

Or maybe a full support for Markdown?

[juniusfree]

https://discord.com/channels/708122962422792194/800442937602342922/819461273833046046

[sid597]

This is discussed here also #1001 , seeing the no of reactions I think it would be best to keep this open, but discussions would be a better place for this.

[neotyk]

Proposed Aliases approach.

I don't like the amount of brackets you'd use with both approaches that ROAM offers.

What if we instead would extend our Athens Flavoured Markdown with following:

• [alias text]((block-uid)) for block aliases
• [alias text][[Page Title]] for page aliases

This is an extension of Markdown links [title](url) which takes [title] part to provide alias text and replaces (url) with either ((block-ref)) or [[page link]].

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If you see a cleaner way to do aliases, please share.

[Limezy]

I like that approach

[BradKML]

Would increase complexity of operations, better off using alias:: as pages relinking

[tangjeff0]

This is implemented in 2.0.0-beta.6 https://github.com/athensresearch/athens/releases/tag/v2.0.0-beta.6!

[muhlinux]

I think using a pipe would be really clean:

• [[alias|page]]
• ((alias|uid))