Book titles with # sign creates issues when creating obsidian notes (illegal file name char)

[agent00111b]

First,

This is really awesome community plugin, it really does a lot of work and it's really helpful!

One issue I found is that if the book title has a series number in it "Agent in Place (Gray Man, #7)", the # creates a problem since it's one of the illegal file name characters: #^[]|.

A solution would be to regex it and replace # with 'No.': "Agent in Place (Gray Man, No. 7)". Otherwise when I create click on the title it tries to create the stub obsidian note but it gets truncated to, in this case, "Agent in Place (Gray Man,"

Thank you for this plugin though!

[sergiodlash]

Hey!

Thanks for the report! I hope you are finding the plugin useful!
I am looking into this issue and I will update you soon!

[sergiodlash]

Thanks for the report, I have updated the plugin in the last release to remove problematic characters in filenames. Hope this helps!
Since '#' is an allowed character in Linux and Mac, I opted for only removing it for Windows users.
I also decided to remove it completely instead of changing it to 'No.' because some other book titles make use of this character in a different way, so this avoids unexpected behavior.
I opened an issue ( #3 ) to make the option of custom regex for book titles available in the plugin settings, so users can decide how they want to deal with these characters.

Hope you enjoy!

[agent00111b]

I updated to the 1.1 and get the same issue. But I think I have a better understanding of the problem. So let’s say I have a book with this title: Agency (Jackpot, #2) File name is actually okay, the problem is with the wiki link format of obsidian. Let’s say I create a base file that queries all books in my folder (Atlas / Dots / Books). It will create a wiki link with target: Agency (Jackpot, #2). But the problem is that wiki link recognizes the # as a bookmark, so when link is clicked, it will navigate to file "Agency (Jackpot, “ which doesn’t exist. It thinks that ‘#2)’ is the bookmark to the header link as I understand it. How to test: 1. Create a new obsidian note called 'Agency (Jackpot, #999)’. As you’re typing in the file name, you’ll actually see a pop up warning: “Links will not work with file names containing any of these characters: #^[]|”. You can still create the file however, you just can’t create a wiki link to it. 2. Create a new note, any filename/title, and add wiki link to the file: [[Agency (Jackpot, #999)]]. This should be rendered in the light link since it doesn’t think that file “Agency (Jackpot, “ exists. 3. When you click on the link, it will create the stub file "Agency (Jackpot, “. Hope that makes sense!

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-JL

On Jun 22, 2026, at 11:55 PM, Sergio de las Heras ***@***.***> wrote: sergiodlash left a comment (sergiodlash/goodreadsync#1) <#1 (comment)> Thanks for the report, I have updated the plugin in the last release to remove problematic characters in filenames. Hope this helps! Since '#' is an allowed character in Linux and Mac, I opted for only removing it for Windows users. I also decided to remove it completely instead of changing it to 'No.' because some other book titles make use of this character in a different way, so this avoids unexpected behavior. I opened an issue ( #3 <#3> ) to make the option of custom regex for book titles available in the plugin settings, so users can decide how they want to deal with these characters. Hope you enjoy! — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1?email_source=notifications&email_token=A5MBJ3C7K2XMJLNMIHKF3XL5BISUTA5CNFSNUABFM5UWIORPF5TWS5BNNB2WEL2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQXTINZXGY2TINJZHE3KM4TFMFZW63VGMF2XI2DPOKSWK5TFNZ2KYZTPN52GK4S7MNWGSY3L#issuecomment-4776545996>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A5MBJ3GOZQ4FR5HYVSIPRKD5BISUTAVCNFSNUABFKJSXA33TNF2G64TZHM4TAMBXGYYTQMJRHNEXG43VMU5TINZQHEYDMNRTGM22C5QC>. Triage notifications, keep track of coding agent tasks and review pull requests on the go with GitHub Mobile for iOS <https://github.com/notifications/mobile/ios/A5MBJ3BZ6UVX5OQ7XCKQ52D5BISUTA5CNFSNUABFM5UWIORPF5TWS5BNNB2WEL2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQXTINZXGY2TINJZHE3KM4TFMFZW63VGMF2XI2DPOKSWK5TFNZ2KUZTPN52GK4S7NFXXG> and Android <https://github.com/notifications/mobile/android/A5MBJ3BXEVUSRVR3R3EB5AT5BISUTA5CNFSNUABFM5UWIORPF5TWS5BNNB2WEL2JONZXKZKDN5WW2ZLOOQXTINZXGY2TINJZHE3KM4TFMFZW63VGMF2XI2DPOKSWK5TFNZ2K4ZTPN52GK4S7MFXGI4TPNFSA>. Download it today! You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[sergiodlash]

Dear agent00111b,

I understand the issue better now. I see how the '#' character can cause problems with obsidian parsing the name of the note incorrec tly.
I reopen this issue to find a cleaner way to deal with this. I will try to push an update soon, also addressing #3 as a related issue.

Thank you for your valuable feedback!