Hi, I would like to find out if its possible to easily copy snippets of selected text from one note to another note in a way that it automatically appends the link back to the original note, or even better, to the original block.
So the requirement is I have a full book inside Obsidian and want to extract specific snippets of text from the book (its split into a note per chapter) into other notes split into specific topics as I go through the document, and need a link back beneath each copied snippet to the original note I copied from for easy reference later.
Is there an efficient way to do this without having to manually add the backlink after pasting each note? Thanks
There is the Note refactor plugin which lets you select text, press your configured hotkey/use the command palette and extract the selection to a new note. (Itâs a community plugin.)
This is an extraction and not copying. You can however specify what should happen in the original note in Note link template, in your case just keeping the selection there should be doable with {{new_note_content}}.
I think the default embed may even be better for your use case than just doubling the text, but thatâs up to your personal preferences.
In the Refactored note template you can specify with {{title}} where the link to the original note should be in the new note.
It supports other placeholders as well, take a look at the screenshot or even better, try it out yourself with the plugin.
Probably not exactly what youâre looking for, but with the âcopy block linkâ plugin you can right-click any block or header and copy the transclusion link, for pasting it elsewhere.
There is a plugin called âObsidian42 text transporterâ that can copy the block link of a selection to another file and do many other such copying block links and block embeds kind of things. You should check it out if you havenât heard of it before.
