Feature Request: @[[Name]]

[luislopes-outsystems]

Hi, I don't know if this specific use case is something that only fits me, but I have notes related with a person, and sometimes I don't remember who is who, so I do a person note with their photo, information, etc.

So nowadays (without this extension) I usually mention people by [[Person]]...
So I'm wondering if there would be a possibility to generate some @[[Person]] mentions instead that would be considered mentions, and be links to a file all the same.

Alternatively, keep the mentions as they are, but allowing to create a note related the @person mention. idk if this makes sense..

Regards,

[papatistos]

I am looking for basically the exact same feature! (My Idea was, to have the @ sign as part of the note name so that typing @person would be turned into [[@person]].

For somebody who knows what they're doing, this would probably be a rather small change because as far as I understand, the current code wraps the mention in html tags (which remain invisible in Obsidian). For me, it would suffice to replace those tags with [[ and ]]. I believe this is the method that does the wrapping:

obsidian-simple-mention/src/MentionPostProcessor.ts

Lines 82 to 91 in 969641d

	private surroundWithAnchorTag(text: string, className: string): HTMLAnchorElement {
	const anchor = document.createElement('a');
	anchor.addClass(className, 'preview');
	anchor.textContent = text;
	anchor.onClickEvent((_) => {
	this.subscribers.forEach((s) => s(text));
	});
	return anchor;

ChatGPT suggests that this method simply needs to be replaced with something like this:

private surroundWithBracket(text: string): string {
    return `[[${text}]]`;
}

But I'm not sure how exactly to accomplish that.

[codejager]

Both suggestions are worth trying, imho.

Edit: In my current workflow I am using both an @Someone and a Someone note file. First is the agenda for recurring meetings, second is a fact sheet / log file. Latter mostly used for members of team and other long lived relations in the working environment. That's why I am leaning towards @tophee 's request.
A different option that would work for me would be having the mention syntax as an alias for a wikilink, including the navigability. Both @Someone and [[Someone]] in markdown would be a link to the Someone note in the vault. To keep my workflow I would have to rename the fact sheet to something like Someone status which is fine.