Wikilink auto-completion request

One nice feature of Obsidian is that the auto-completion suggestions for wikilinks include not only the names of notes that exist, but also wiki-links to notes that do not yet exist, but have been placed inside [[]] in other notes. For example:

If I’m in a client meeting regarding new projects, I might type the names of a new client contact, say: [[Jane Smith]]. I don’t have a note for Jane Smith yet, and I might never, but I know her name is likely to come up again.

Two weeks later, I’m in another meeting, with “Jane” but I can’t recall her full name off the top of my head. In Obsidian I could start typing [[Jane and it would suggest [[Jane Smith]].

This helps with consistency in naming people, projects, companies, etc. and allows for better future linking if and when the non-existent Jane Smith note is created.

It would be helpful if Drafts had this same functionality—pulling the auto-complete list not just from the names of Drafts, but also from words inside other Drafts that appear inside [[]].

I assume this is beyond something that a syntax could ever do. Any chance of getting this feature added?

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I’ll put it on the list to think about. Would be hard to do in a performant way without building and maintaining an index of all proposed links across all drafts, which would be a lot…but I’ll think about it.

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Thanks for the consideration!