Dear all, This may not fall into this category. So I just found out about Obsidian. I have a lot of notes copied from website with footnotes,etc. I copy pasted these into Obsidian folder. the problem is in the original files there are a lot of [1], [sth sth], etc which create a very crowded graph f…

U can use vscode (or atom) to do that in batches. Forum post below shows how to remove [[]]. It should be applicable to u to replace [ with ( [image] Is anyone aware of ANY way we can delink/unlink mentions efficiently? Help on top of @unrelated suggestion on using sed, a…

There is a program called “renamer” that might be able to do what you’re looking for. https://www.den4b.com/products/renamer It’s been on my to-do list for a long time now to use it to move my Notion and Evernote notes into Obsidian.

Thanks @efemkay , I’ll try that soon! Thanks.

This only change the file names and not the file content @echoreflection

@Jerry2 Ah I guess I misunderstood what you were looking for.

Notepad++ has a batch search/replace that will work on all files in a given folder.

I have used a program called Grepwin. (There is another one called WinGrep). It looked like it did the work when I opened the file. But in Obsidian, i used the random plug in and got a file which still has [1]. I will revert back if can find why.

Batch Cleaning Mark down files before pasting into Obsidian folder in Windows explorer

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efemkay March 15, 2022, 12:03pm 2

U can use vscode (or atom) to do that in batches. Forum post below shows how to remove [[]]. It should be applicable to u to replace [ with (

Cmd-O, clear suggestions to create new note after deletion