Export Vault into a single text file?

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What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to export my Vault into a single .txt or .md file, where all files in the Vault are ordered sequentially preserving the Markdown formatting so that I can upload it as a single file to Claude or ChatGPT.

Things I have tried

I tried using Pandoc but it only allows single files, I came to ask here if anyone knows a solution to this before attempting to write a Python script or something to do this.

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I’ve not used it, but this does sound like something the longform plugin possibly could handle? (I believe it’s main function is to allow for books to be created bits and pieces (also knows as chapters? :slight_smile: ) and then gather them together into larger files.

Other than that, another idea which springs to mind is to use Templater in combination with Dataview to gather the files, and output it as a new file. Some coding would be required, especially related to the sequentially preservation of the the files. How exactly do you foresee the ordering of the files?

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That is your best bet. Walk the folder or all folders (vault) sequentially and stitch the files together. I think this a trivial job for today’s free online chat bots. Just add your full absolute path of your vault as base_path and some output folder where the stitched file comes out.

But if this is a recurring need, I’d advise you either:

  1. Index your vault with an embedding model in Obsidian Copilot (not sure what is available…?)

or:

  1. Use Msty app to download an embedding model (default: MixedBread Large), point a Knowledge Stack at your vault (you can drag your vault onto the app) and chat with the vault (you can use any Pro licence you may have purchased at ChatGPT or Claude.ai, or you can create free API keys at Groq and Google Gemini) when the RAG vector database is done.
  • Make sure you add a .mstyignore file to the root folder of your vault with what you want excluded from the RAG indexed DB:
    • E.g.:
# Ignore folder contents
PARA/AREAS/*
PARA/RESOURCES/*
HUB/*

# Ignore all files starting and ending with 'excalidraw'
excalidraw*
*excalidraw

# Ignore all files ending with 'emplate' and 'uery'
*emplate
*uery
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I think date will be good enough, also whenever I create files I number them but I doubt a plugin will be able to take advantage of that its more in case ill need to make a custom script