Mass delete (and other actions) by tag

[clothstir]

Things I have tried

The only command I can find is to delete the current file.

What I’m trying to do

Find an efficient way to delete files/notes that contain a particular tag. Any other tips for working with large amounts of notes at a time would be great. I recently imported my Bear archive of about 4000 notes.

[I-d-as]

I have not tried this exact technique before, but if you don’t mind going one folder at a time, you could try the following method on Windows:

• Make sure you already have indexing options set to index .md files, which is not the default
• Open chosen folder
• Search for the tag
• Make sure the number of results matches how many you expect based on a search in Obsidian
• Select all files in the Windows Explorer search results and copy them
• Create a new folder and paste the copied files within
• Select all files in the new folder and copy them
• Paste the files into the original directory in your vault replacing existing (this automatically will highlight them)
• Delete the files
• Delete the folder created to temporarily store copied files

I am sure there is probably a much better way, but in the meantime I hope this helps.

Thanks.