How to use the "related to" with projects

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Hi everyone, I have one question about JDex and the “Relates to” field. Specifically for Obsidian and with Projects.

I have projects in a specific category for work. Because we use Jira, below that folder I am using the Jira ID as folder name and below that I have folders following a template.
So for example I have:


20-29 Company
    22 Company Initiatives
        INIT-0123 Improve configuration of blah blah blah
            10 Kick-off, PDR, etc...
            20 Notes
            30 blah blah blah

When I have another project that I have to link to another, I cannot use the links in Obsidian, because it cannot link to folders. In the JDex that I have at 00, I created that project again as a folder and 10 Kick-off, PDR, etc… as a .md
At the moment when I have to link projects using the “relates to” I am pointing to that 10 Kick-off, PDR, etc….md, but it feels awkward.
Am I doing it correctly? Or projects using a template should be recorded in your JDex as .md directly like INIT-0123 Improve configuration of blah blah blah.md?

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The much-used Folder Notes plugin should help here.

You can make INIT-0123 etc.md which appears as if it was a note, attached to the folder. Works great. And now that’s a note that you can link to.

(If Folder Notes didn’t exist, I’d say create INIT-0123 etc.00.md and stick it in the root of that folder and link to that. But Folder Notes is the better option.)

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Thanks Johnny. If you use Folder Notes, do you need still to keep the JDex in the 00 or can you avoid that? :folded_hands:

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In this specific case you don’t need a 00 note.

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