Several times now I’ve been cleaning up notes and thought that a way to extract text into a new note could be a time saver. Similar to refactoring code in an IDE, you would select a block of text, then select from the right click menu (or press a hotkey), which opens up a prompt for a new note title…

This will be implemented in 0.12.6

Oh, no worries, I hope I didn’t come off as accusatory. I don’t care who gets credit for the idea, I’d just love to see it implemented!

Merged, hope you guys don’t mind @BlueSun @GBC .

Would also love to see this. My imported notes are a vast mess and I’d like to make them more manageable/navigable

This would be a really cool feature that I would love. For my most common use case, it would be handy to have the option to be able to replace the extracted text with a transclusion/embed ![[ ]] instead of a link [[ ]]… this could either be with two separate hotkeys/right-click options, or just a s…

This is such a crucial feature for me that I switched to using the VS Code extensions Foam and Markdown Memo for refactoring my notes. I made a somewhat clunky macro to Extract Note, but it works well enough. You can work off of the same Obsidian vault folder (generally) without any issues. You can…

I agree this would be useful, right now I just do it manually albeit with some string replacement for quickly formatting the new page. It would be nice to just be able to select text and press a hotkey that creates a new page with the selected text and embeds/links it in the original page. The good …

Adding my +1 to this feature. I do this often with my daily notes: I have a thought/idea that comes up. I create a title “###### Name of Idea”, and I start writing my idea underneath this title. Quickly enough, I realize this idea has different components/is related to different concept and deser…

+1 This sounds great. One usecase I’ve always had in mind with this was just taking a section (everything under a heading and its subheadings) and simply refactoring that out. This way you could trivially refactor all links pointing to that section or one of its subsections. If a note is structure…

Another +1 to this feature. I’m a student and when I’m taking notes while watching lectures or reading I don’t want to worry about note structure, so I usually just make big note sections and organize them into discrete notes later. A feature like this would really improve this experience.

My main aim to refactor note is to preserve links. So if I have a bigger note with more concepts in it, and finally extract those to their own file, I’d like to have all the links remain valid.

Extract Note / Refactor

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dsteinbock November 23, 2020, 9:31pm 19

There is now a community plugin that does all of this!