How to Remove Links for an Entire Folder

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I am trying to remove all links that can be found in the various files in my “Daily Notes” folder I made years ago to store all of my daily notes. The issue that I’m having is that everytime I want to view the backlink for a particular file I’ve created, I have to scroll through dozens and dozens of daily note files to find something useful, like a book or an article that references that file.

I used to use links in my daily notes to help remind me of what I was referring to, but I realized too late that this was a bad idea and leads to a lot of clutter when searching for files.

Is there any way I can mass remove all links from this folder to clean up my vault? Or would I need to go in and remove links manually from every individual daily note I’ve made over the last 4 years?

I’ve tried searching around the forums for an answer but I’m not sure many people are having this particular problem.

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Without a plugin or separate app, you can use the Replace command (in the 3 dot menu or command palette) to replace [[ and ]] with nothing (assuming you’re using the default “wikilinks” setting). This also wont handle the extra text in '[[link|text]]` if you’ve done that. Replace only affects the current file but the dialogue stays open, so you can move thru a series of files pretty quickly pressing the Replace All button and then the next file repeatedly.

With a plugin you could do the same thing with one of the global replace plugins that affects multiple files at once. Make sure to backup first! It’s possible there could also be a plugin specifically for removing links.

Another option is to use a separate app (like VS Code) that can do replacement across files.