I have a book draft in 14 notes 1 for each chapter. I would like to merge all into one scrollable master, with a content directory so each chapter note is in the list, clickable, to take me to that chapter within the document, so I can still scroll up and down to next chapters. Like in Google Docs. So far it only opened the stand alone note again.
Things I have tried
I’ve spent 2 hours with AI trying to do this. No luck. I can’t find a way to simply copy my chapters list from side panel. So I tried the Longform plugin. It still asks me to retype all the names manually. I tried merge, but still don’t get my clickable master content list of # chapter headings. Is this even possible?
Dragging a note from the sidebar file browser into a note creates a link. If you do that, putting each link on its own line, then you can use the Easy Bake plugin to replace the links with the content of the notes they point to. If each note starts with a heading, you can now use the Outline in the right sidebar to navigate them.
It works fine for links in one note, but only opens one note at a time. I need to have the single master document, with all chapter notes visible as I scroll up & down, with a directory at the top or side letting me click to that exact spot in the master document. I use this all the time in Google Docs, but can’t seem to make that happen in Obsidian. Trying to collate many long notes, so I can have it all in one, and then dump in AI for editing to check for repetition, overlap etc. That task is difficult with so many different notes. I’ve been searching all afternoon, so it looks like what i need is not possible
You can fully embed content of another note with `![[Note]]`, in your case something like this should do the work. If you add headers and enable built-in Outline plugin, you will have the per-chapter navigation. And with headers you get chapter collapsing.
