Obsidian Note Splitter

Note splitter is an Obsidian.md plugin for desktop only. It allows you to split an Obsidian note into individual notes based on a specified sequence of characters (a delimiter). The default delimiter is a new line.

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
• Settings
• Contributing
• License

Installation

1. In Obsidian, open Settings
2. Go to Community plugins
3. Select Browse
4. Search for Note Splitter by DecafDev
5. Select Install
6. Then select Enable

Usage

1. Open a note that you want to split
2. Open the Obsidian command palette
3. Type Split by delimiter
4. Press enter

Note

Splitting a note will not modify the original note. (Unless the delete original setting is enabled.) It will create a new notes in an output folder that you specify.

Frontmatter

When splitting a note, this plugin will ignore frontmatter. Only the content after the frontmatter block will be split.

Settings

Folder path

Folder to save the split notes to. The default is note-splitter.

Setting this field to an empty string will save split notes to the same folder as the original note.

Delimiter

The delimiter to split by can be configured in the plugin settings. The default delimiter is a new line \n.

Use content as title

If enabled, use the first line of the split section as the name for new notes, handling any name collisions automatically. If disabled, a timestamp is used.

Note

Disabled by default.

Delete original

If enabled, the original note will be deleted after the split.

Note

Disabled by default.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. Please add a short description in your pull request about the updates that you are making.

License

Note Splitter is distributed under MIT License