Looking to track and categorize specific files on my computer

[3x5]

I have a directory on my computer with a bunch of different files in nested folders. For my purposes, I only want to track the ones with .RPP file extension.

I’d like to see the names of these files in Obsidian, and to be able to associate metadata with them: tags, notes, rating, % completed. I don’t need to see their folder structure in Obsidian, and I would like to keep the files where they are (rather than pulling them into the vault).

Is there any way to accomplish this using Obsidian, perhaps with a plugin?

[blue_emperor]

You could do as follows:

1. generate the list of .RPP files using some shell command
2. then using ChatGPT batch generate md-files where each frontmatter contains
   

   ---
   file-link: "[<your-file-name>](file://<your-file-path>)"
   tags: 
   rating: 
   completed: 
   ---
   

I haven’t tested the ChatGPT-part but on bash/zsh you can use this command to get the list of .RPP files

find ~+ -type f -name "*.RPP"

[3x5]

Thanks so much for the reply. I don’t think that’s going to work for me, but I have found something I think might work. I’m trying to find a way to manage my music project and Reaper is my DAW (hence the .RPP file extension). If I use the root folder of my music project as my vault, then Obsidian contains all the files therein.

Every .RPP project has to have its own parent subfolder, so I can keep media files together (like recordings). This means for every .RPP, I can probably just create a .md sidecar that will hold all my notes. I will probably have more questions as I go, but I think this is putting me in the right direction.