Tired of pasting your heading into your note's title? Tired of dealing with Untitled307.md?
This Obisidan plugin provides you with a command to automatically extract the beginning of your note and make it the file title.
In the future, you will be able to install this plugin like any other Community Plugin, by searching for Title Extractor in the Community Plugin Tab.
At the time of writing, this plugin is not yet available in the Community Plugin Tab. You have to install it manually.
The Obsidian Title Extractor exposes the command Extract Title and Filename From Note Content. Running this command will do exactly that; it will read the beginning of your currently open note and set the title/filename accordingly.
You can access this command via Cmd+P or Ctrl+P. I heavily recommend setting an hotkey for convenience. Personally, I use Ctrl+Shift+S (learn more about hotkeys and commands).
There are a bunch of settings which allow you to fine-tune how note titles are generated. If you are not sure what these are about, you can probably keep the default settings.
I split Settings into Style and Compatibility. The former influences the look and feel of your titles-- you may want to play around with them. The latter is less likely to matter to you. Compatibility settings mostly prevent issues and pain related to special characters in file names when you handle them in scripts, older operating systems or other special contexts.
For most settings, you will find an example to clarify what happens if you toggle it. Please note that some examples also use other settings to make the effect clear.
Defines the number of characters that are allowed in the title. The program tries to avoid cutting off words in the middle.
example: you have set maximum length to 64 and have the following note:
Ay, marry, is’t:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.
This heavy-headed revel east and west
Makes us traduced and tax’d of other nations:
the plugin will generate the following title Ay, marry, is’t_ But to my mind, though I am native here And to.md
As you may know, Obsidian allows you to put metadata in the so-called frontmatter of your note. By default, frontmatter is excluded from the title. If you want to include it (for some reason), turn this setting off.
example: you have the following note:
---
interval: 1
repetition: 1
efactor: 2.6
dueAt: 2023-07-19T13:24:16.453Z
---
estremo
---
extreme, (the) utmost, (the) farthest, terminal, (the) outermost, drastic, excessive, intense
-
if you have set exclude frontmatter to true the plugin will generate the following title
-estremo --- extreme, (the) utmost, (the) farthest, terminal,.md -
if you have set exclude frontmatter to false the plugin will generate the following title
--- interval_ 1 repetition_ 1 efactor_ 2.6 dueAt_ 2023-07-19T13.md
Per default, the plugin will only use the first line of your note to generate the title. As a general rule, this creates quite beautiful filenames. If you disable this setting, the rest of the note will also be considered (until the character limit is hit)
example: you have the following note:
## [Tamara de Lempicka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka)
> was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes.
-
if you have set consider only first line to true the plugin will generate the following title
Tamara de Lempicka.md -
if you have set consider only first line to false the plugin will generate the following title
Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish painter who spent her working.md
Markdown is the language you use in Obsidian to do stuff like making things bold or italic. You probably don't want Markdown commands like * [ ] < in your filename, but if so, disable this setting.
example: you have the following note:
## [Hebbian Learning](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebbian_theory)
> "Cells that fire together wire together."
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if you have set strip markdown to true the plugin will generate the following title
Hebbian Learning "Cells that fire together wire together.".md -
if you have set strip markdown to false the plugin will generate the following title
## [Hebbian Learning](https___en.wikipedia.org_wiki_Hebbian_theory) > "Cells that fire.md
Activating any of these generally makes title uglier, but more compatible with old operating systems, scripts, bash commands and so on.
If you are not doing anything fancy with your Obsidian files, you can likely leave these alone.
Removes all .s (periods/full stops/dots/decimal points) from your titles. Activating this setting may be useful if you are using . to detect file types in a script.
Some systems dislike spaces in filenames. If this is relevant to you, enable this setting.
example:
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if you have set Replace spaces with underscores to true the plugin will generate titles like:
Dangerous_Ideas__Getting_Started_is_Overrated.md -
if you have set Replace spaces with underscores to false the plugin will generate titles like:
Dangerous Ideas_ Getting Started is Overrated
note: the : is always replaced, since colons are illegal in Obsidian filenames
If your system can handle Unicode but you have trouble with special characters, you can enable this option.
I heavily recommend using this option together with replace spaces with underscores to create somewhat readable titles.
example: you have the following note:
## >10 Transliterations of Munich I ~~ love ~~ ;3
München / Muenchen / Muenchén, Múnich; Μόναχο, מינכן, ミュンヘン, 뮌헨, มิวนิก, ميونيخ, Мюнхен, 慕尼黑, 蒙典, მიუნხენი.
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if you have set this option to true the plugin will generate the following title
10_Transliterations_of_Munich_I__love__3__München___Muenchen___Muenchén_Múnich_Μόναχο.md -
if you have set this option to false the plugin will generate the following title
>10_Transliterations_of_Munich_I__love__;3__München___Muenchen___Muenchén,_Múnich;.md
This option is meant as the ultimate catch-all compatibility option. Only allowing _, - and English characters should create filenames that not break anywhere. If they do anyways, please open an issue.
Note that enabling this will tend to create quite unreadable titles and just straight up removes characters like ê or ü.
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