# Placeholders like Obsidian?

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/placeholders-like-obsidian/3940>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [July 7, 2026, 2:22am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/placeholders-like-obsidian/3940 "2026-07-07T02:22:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![akashp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/akashp/32/1383_2.png) [@akashp](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/akashp)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2026, 2:18pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/placeholders-like-obsidian/3940/2 "2026-07-08T14:18:46Z")

</div>

> [@Add links to nodes yet to be created without interrupting your writing flow](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/add-links-to-nodes-yet-to-be-created-without-interrupting-your-writing-flow/3495):
>
> I am writing this simple guide to illustrate how three custom functions kindly contributed by @akashp are helping improve my personal writing flow. Hopefully, it can be a starting point for other readers to improve their own org-roam writing habits. For reference, the functions development began with [this thread](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/is-there-a-mechanism-to-easily-identify-broken-links-in-v2/3487), but the back and forth got messy at some point and the thread might feel unwelcoming to newcomers to say the least. So much so that the final discussions were held through DMs, and the…

---

_[View the full topic](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/placeholders-like-obsidian/3940)._