# Drag and drop selected text to elsewhere in same note or another note

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154>\
**Category:** Feature archive\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154 "2020-05-21T03:19:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![scmwiz](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/scmwiz/32/38_2.png) [@scmwiz](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/scmwiz)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154/1 "2020-05-21T03:19:19Z")

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[plugin or feature request or css wizardry? I suggest just keeping one category and then the developers can add an appropriate tag: plugin etc.]

This is more a UI request. It should be possible to move a (selected) block of text from any visible note to any other visible note. Currently just editable to editable pane.

Here is something related: If you drag and drop a block of data on a _folder_ in the file explorer view, it replaces the original text with an `![[`_unique-name_`]]` link, and create new file _unique-name_ in the current folder! The user can then change the name, just like they currently can when they create a new file (in a folder or the vault root). Probably this should be a separate post?

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**Author:** ![goodsignal](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/goodsignal/32/129_2.png) [@goodsignal](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/goodsignal)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2020, 8:42am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154/2 "2020-05-22T08:42:12Z")

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If I understand you correctly, I think this request would merge with [Drag from backlinks to note to drop a link into a note](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-from-backlinks-to-note-to-drop-a-link-into-a-note/81)

The second part would be a nice and easy way to create a page from a highlighted template block. I would go further and request a custom shortcut designation and/or right-click option to create a new page from currently selected text. But also, simply creating a new page and dragging the text in is pretty easy as it is now.

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**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2020, 5:12pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154/5 "2020-12-13T17:12:22Z")

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I am going to archive this. It proposed 2 things and it’s difficut to comprehend.

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**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/drag-and-drop-selected-text-to-elsewhere-in-same-note-or-another-note/154/6 "2022-10-13T14:33:17Z")

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Archived on October 13, 2022, 2:33pm UTC