Plugin for keeping the filename and first heading of a file in sync

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I love this plug in, and it is incredibly useful but I think it has been corrupting the image files that are in my vault. Here is what I tracked down this morning:

Data Loss when using Filename Header Sync

I have not looked at the code yet, but maybe add a guard to ignore any filetypes other than .md?

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Thanks for reporting, this was addressed immediately and the faulty version unpublished+blacklisted. 1.5.1 has a strict guard to only act on markdown files

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Hy @sararkin

My question isnā€™t related about your plugin. Can you show me how did you set-up these marked lines to show in your pane.

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I believe he linked it up thread but the tool there is now deprecated and itā€™s just a Backlinks in Document toggle

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@sararkin
Iā€™m just a noob with javascript, but I may have found a way to improve a piece of your code.

(I donā€™t know how to use GitHub yet, otherwise I would make a push request or whatever it is called)

I tried putting a [[wiki-link]] in the first header, thinking the square brackets would automatically get filtered out. Instead, I was confused when only one pair of brackets was removed, and other similarly strange results.

Looking at your code, I found the culprit: the function sanitizeHeading() (line 231 in main.ts) uses replace(string, '') instead of replace(regExp, '').

I think I figured out how to do it on GitHub.

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I donā€™t know what happen with this plugin when used with obsidian sync. When I update the H1 title, the filename is adapted, but then I have duplicate files.
Ex:
I have a note the-book.md
I open this node and change heading: # the-book becomes # B-the-book
the plugin updates automatically the filename
but then I see 2 files:

  • the-book.md
  • B-the-book.md
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+2!

Synching the Frontmatter Title to the file name as an option would be a terrific benefit!

Cheers!

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+3
For syncing frontmatter title.

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Iā€™m trying to have this plug-in ignore my template files, because it otherwise inserts #Untitled at the end of each new file. Iā€™ve set the Ignore Regex Rule to /* Bins/Templates since my templates are in * Bins/Templates:
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But itā€™s still putting #Untitled at the end of the files.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Russell

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My regex rule is actually: /\* Bins/Templates

Am I dealing with the asterisk correctly?

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Does it display your templates in the settings page to show that they are ignored?

I think the correct regex would be .*Bins\/Templates.*, can you give that a go?

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With your regex, the templates are now displayed in the settings page. However, Iā€™m still getting # Untitled inserted at the end of the note.

Hereā€™s the template file:

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And hereā€™s the result:

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Maybe itā€™s coming from some other plug-in? Iā€™m just using the core Templates plug-in.

Thanks for your kind help!

Best,
Russell

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Is the title of the document ā€œUntitledā€? You can easily test this by deactivating filename-heading-sync and see if it still happens

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With filename-heading-sync DEACTIVATED, and the core Templates plug-in ACTIVATED, I get a new file with ā€œUntitledā€ in the filename field, whether or not the template has an H1 heading.

With filename-heading-sync ACTIVATED, and the core Templates plug-in ACTIVATED, I get a new file with ā€œUntitledā€ in the filename field AND # Untitled inserted at the end of the file, whether or not the template has an H1 heading.

It must be something unique to my setting. Iā€™ll keep digging around, as I have time.

Thanks,
Russell

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Thank you so much!

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1.6 has been released which adds a option to disable the file-open event hook. Some people were reporting issues with templater because both plugins act on file-open. Disabling file-open for those cases should hopefully fix issues

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I suggest to have both options to whitelist/include and blacklist/exclude files, instead of having only the exclude option

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I have the title that changes twice in my files. Is there a new fonction of obsidian that does the same as filename heading sync now ?

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Obsidian shows the file name above the current pane since 1.0. Depends on what you want - do you want the heading as part of the markdown document or are you okay with the obsidian display?

For myself, I turned off the Obsidian feature because I want all the information semantically in my files

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is it possible to set different level heading sync to filename, or just sync the first heading(no matter what level it is) to filename

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