Hi everyone I’m new to obsidian. I’ve been using Apple notes and I have over 500 now I’m writing a book on Nostradamus actually and he wrote 1000 prophecies much of which is still not understood. Point is all my Apple notes have the numerical in them like if I’m talking about a certain one of his prophecies I’ll label it in the form of 6-34 with various numbers.
So I have 500 notes with a dozen of those in each one and I’m wishing their might be someway obsidian can auto convert these numbers into tags so I can start using the graph view and see any macro patterns I missed
I know something similar has been asked in past forums but they wanted the auto convert to happen as one types rather than bulk auto converting all at once
To save numbers, prefix them with a hyphen, eg #-123
I don’t know any plugin which you could use, so the only way to convert your numbers would be to process your notes in batch through some kind of scripting language.
In your case, Applescript. Check out MacScripter for examples.
The way to process your notes would be:
Know the path to your notes
loop through your notes
Read a note and convert any number with the tag prefix #-
Personally, I’d turn each prophecy into a note, and give it the title of the number and maybe a descriptive title, which could either be a quote or a summary. E.g. 53 Raining Frogs (no idea what the guy wrote about).
The advantage of doing that over tags is that you would still be able to see that in the graph view, plus you can take notes in those notes, if you want to comment on something.
Scripting makes sense if all notes or file names are uniform, otherwise it’s easy to break things (speaking from experience). If you do want to use a script remember to back up your files
yeah my notes are already titled like that but in each note i list several other prophecies that might connect. i really dont know how graph view works. how does it make connections? does it read the content of each note and look for similarities and then put those notes closer together in the graph?
When a bite contains a link to another note, it draws a line between them. The more links point to a note, the bigger its dot. Graph view - Obsidian Help
