Obsidian x Markdown - Style Guide - Naming
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- Titles should be comprehensive, even if long
- Prefer linking with the system filename, instead of aliases or display text
- Prefer unique filenames & aliases
- Title naming grammar
- Note title’s source of truth - Filename vs. H1 vs. Frontmatter
- Name your headings like note titles
- helps for eventually extracting sections into their own note
- write your headings like their sections are their own notes
- Safe character set for note titles
- Take advantage of alphanumeric sorting for file names
- Note titles should be globally scoped
- Casing
- prefer sentence case, but can capital case for artistic headings
- Sources?
- Books?
- Videos?
- Websites?
- Quotes?
- Frontmatter property naming (e.g. casing, shortform)
- prefer enumerated values (p0-3)