How do I copy only visible items?

Scotty · September 28, 2021, 4:09pm

What I’m trying to do

I’m trying to copy only visible items from Obsidian into another document. In other words, if text is folded, I don’t want to copy it.

1. The full text looks like this

2. I fold it and I only want to copy the visible items

3. This is the result I want when I paste it

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Does anyone have a thought on how to do this? It could be a good plug-in or there might be some other trick using a script.

Thanks for any ideas

imed · September 29, 2021, 11:21am

You can screenshot OCR then paste the result using another app, I don’t have any in mind though.

Scotty · September 29, 2021, 5:09pm

Thanks. It could work if I did this occasionally. I copy and paste out Obsidian several times a day.

I once had a script that would do this. I’ll have to keep looking.

anon12638239 · September 29, 2021, 7:53pm

If I fold text in ‘preview’, copy it from ‘preview’, and then paste it into TextEdit or Pages, I only get the headings. If I do the same in ‘edit’, I get all the text from the fold.

Would copying from ‘preview’ work for you?

Angel

Scotty · September 30, 2021, 1:57am

Ha! yes it does! Thank you @anon12638239! I thought I tried to copy from the preview mode, but I must have missed this! Thanks for your help.

anon12638239 · September 30, 2021, 5:20am

Welcome. Great news.

Angel

system · October 30, 2021, 5:21am

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