Does this constrain the note to be within that folder? I.e. if you move note files into other folders, does this break the existing links to those notes?
No, it does not.
They are very clever âŚ
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No the links are just fine. You will get a notification when you move somehting as to how many links in how many files got changed so youcan actually see that itâs working as advertised.
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As others replied, the short answer is ânoâ.
But you need to make sure Options > Files & Links > Automatically update internal links is set to on
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It seems I have much more to learn about Obsidian! As ever owning the tool doesnât mean I know how to use it 
. This has been very helpful, so thank you for your kind comments.
I shall now investigate the app more thoroughly! (Still not giving up orgmode!)
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Yes, they are!
Clever, fast, responsive. Most impressive.
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Obsidian is certainly not a âMac-assed Mac appâ, to use Gruberâs (and Brent Simmonâs) term. The default keyboard shortcuts are minimal, and the menus are a UX atrocity. Many (most?) of the community-generated themes are painful to look at. And there are many other ways in which it feels foreign, even hostile, to a discerning Mac user.
That said, when you give Obsidian a chance, give its âphilosophy of notesâ a chance, and really learn how to use it, itâs a transformational tool. Customize the keyboard shortcuts, add new commands with plugins, use the context menu, ârelaxâ about perfect file/folder organization. Learn to use the tool the way the tool is designed to be used, and the things the tool does well will be revealed.
Which, no doubt about it, is a barrier. I bounced off of Obsidian more than once. Itâs an investment, one Iâm still in the process of making. And itâs not the best tool for every job, or person. Itâs OK to say, this isnât for me.
But if it is for you, or youâve listened to podcasts, watched videos, etc. and think it might be for you, then stick with it. Let go of the things that Obsidian doesnât do well, or does differently (and likely will never do the way Mac users expect), and give it a real go.
Iâm still learning, but I can see that itâs going to change the way I take notes, and connect my notes and thoughts together. Itâs a struggle (Iâm old, these are new tricks), but most of the struggle is actually not the tool (Obsidian), itâs learning to take notes differently. Which I can use with other tools besides Obsidian.
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One I donât often see mentioned which is particularly annoying me at the moment is that Obsidian doesnât seem to use the default macOS spellcheck dictionary; instead, it uses its own. Not only does Obsidian not recognize all the specialized vocabulary Iâve added to the macOS dictionary, but its built-in dictionary also seems much more limited than the default OS one. Iâm (slowly) using âAdd to dictionaryâ on everything it thinks is misspelled, but the process is rather tedious and annoying.
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Nothing like an honest review to make me glad Iâm sitting on the Obsidian sidelines. However I still grab my popcorn and eagerly read whenever Obsidian true believers post. 
Isnât this par for the course when you use a cross-platform Electron-based app on a Mac?
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No I expect an app designed for use in a mac to integrate properly and spell check is one of the most basic of features, especially for a notes app!
Good luck with that. In a very real sense, Obsidian was not designed for the Mac.
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Iâve got my problems with Obsidian and its support, but ânot designed for Macâ is nowhere on that list. If that were my personal criterion, I would have missed out years of productive use with Tinderbox, TheBrain, Obsidian, MarginNote, and many others. This is my old âugly softwareâ bemusement. Itâs a bit of cutoffthenosetospitetheface-ish. Anyway, each to his own, respectfully.
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One could argue that it was not designed for anything except Chrome. But I suspect the developers want mac users to also adopt it and the fact that they very quickly released an iOS app would probably bear that out. Creating apps for users on OSâs that donât respect integration into that OS is bound cause at least a modicum of expressed annoyance from those users.
I think itâs a bit of an overexaggeration to say that Obsidian is âhostileâ to Mac users. But I donât think Iâll add too much more to this thread as I find my opinion of âgood design doesnât necessarily have to be Mac designâ is often regarded as hostile to proponents of Mac design anyway.
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On the other hand, you can use Obsidian on macOS, Windows, and Linux and itâs the same.
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Would that the same could be said of, oh I donât know, Excel. I only regret moving from Windows to macOS when I fire up Excel and rediscover yet again that the macOS version is both crippled compared to the Windows version (where oh where is the full set of Power Query tools) and ignorant of bog-standard macOS keyboard shortcuts / menu items, e.g. Paste and Match Style or any of the text transformation right click options.
No hostility here. âForm over functionâ is always a confusing priority to me.
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Good luck with that!
I think you may have meant âpreferâ when you wrote âexpectâ.
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And my favourite one - CMD + Arrow doesnât take you to the end of the line and you have to use the Home and End buttons - which are stupidly hard to press on my Matias Quiet Pro.
Iâm not fussed about Obsidian and itâs Electron app heritage. From a user of GTK based apps on Windows and Mac, Iâm used to things looking poorly integrated - but working well. And at the end of the day, itâs the results Iâm judged on.
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