Obsidian link display text is mutable
The display text for internal links in Obsidian is not immutable.
Although this doesn’t happen every time, Obsidian can change the display text when a file is renamed if the display text is the same as the name of the file and there is no corresponding alias.
For example:
- Create an internal link
[[Foobar|Foobar]] - Create the file
Foobar - Rename
Foobartobar-baz - Observe that the internal link has been updated to
[[bar-baz|bar-baz]]
This problem could be worked around by adding the display text used in the internal link as an alias for the file before renaming the file. In the previous example, this would be done by adding the alias Foobar before the file is renamed to bar-baz.