My love of Obsidian only grows. I was running a Session 0 for a new Monster of the Week campaign last night. I was taking notes on people's characters as they introduced them, all together at the bottom of my session notes doc. "Dang," I then thought. "What I really want is a separate note for each character, so I can link them for each of their histories.
I was expecting a straightforward but mildly annoying copy-paste situation, but...
It turns out that this button just pulls an entire section out into its own note. The fact that I was using headers for each character meant that it pulled through note titles automatically, too. I was: very pleased.
The note-linking feature was really useful here as well -- previously in MOTW character creation, I've drawn a little paper chart of the connections as we went. Too many players for that this time around, but using note links let me set 'outbound' histories between the characters. And the backlinks sidebar lets me see which other characters have history links into that character.
I also unearthed another feature that I was sure would be there, but I couldn't figure out what it would be called. It turned out it was rather simple: embedding. There are a few notes where I want a live-updating preview of content from another note, rather than having to manually replicate that information whenever it changes in one place. Boom. It's there.
I really love Obsidian.
See also Daily Notes, Daily Notes and Possum Ravens, Obsidian sync, and Experimenting with Obsidian PKM