Obsidian/Q/In obsidian, can I add an alias for a page? If so, how?

• In obsidian, can I add an alias for a page? If so, how?

  • Answer

    • AI/Response
      • Yes. In Obsidian, a note (what you called a “page”) can have one or more aliases—alternative titles you can search for, link to, and surface in suggestions.
      • How to add aliases
        • Add an aliases property in the note’s properties block (YAML between --- lines at the top of the file). Aliases should be a list (one per line with - , or another valid YAML list form).
        • You can also use Add file property from the command palette, Cmd/Ctrl+;, or the note tab More actions menu, then choose or create the aliases property.
        • Older vaults may still show deprecated singular alias; current docs use aliases (and the help notes alias was deprecated in favor of aliases).
      • What you get
        • When you type [[ and start typing an alias, it appears in link suggestions (with a curved-arrow indicator per help). Inserting it typically becomes a wikilink that keeps the canonical note name but shows the alias as display text (similar to [[Long Title|Short]]), so other wikilink tools still resolve to the real file.
        • The Backlinks pane can help find unlinked mentions of alias text so you can promote them to links.
      • Not the same as display text — If you only want different link text in one spot, use Obsidian’s custom link display text option (see Internal links in Obsidian Help) instead of adding a vault-wide alias.

      • Sources

        • Obsidian Help — Aliases (source on GitHub)
        • Obsidian Help — Properties / default properties (source on GitHub)