Text Format

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When I'm taking notes, sometimes I encounter some issues like

I copied some text from pdf or some other source, but the copied content is out of format. For example, there are more than one space between words or one paragraph brokes into several lines.

Lowercase letters are required while they are all uppercase, etc.

blahblahblah...

This plugin is created to format selected text lowercase/uppercase/capitalize/titlecase or remove redundant spaces/newline characters, and other features listed below.

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Features

Experimental features:

Format on paste: see #86

Commands

Press cmd/ctrl+P to enter the command. 👇

Or you can consider to bind custom hotkeys to those commands according to #29.

Text Format

⚙️: There is setting of this command.

Basic

Command	Description
Lowercase	Lowercase all letters in selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile)
Uppercase	Uppercase all letters in selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile)
Capitalize all words ⚙️	Capitalize all words in selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile)
Capitalize only first word of sentence ⚙️	Capitalize only first word of sentence(s) in selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile)
Title case ⚙️	Capitalize words but leave certain words in lower case in selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile) #1
Cycle case ⚙️	A custom loop to format the selection or the whole title (when cursor focus inline tile)
Slugify selected text	convert any input text into a URL-friendly slug
Snakify selected text	Lowercase all letters in selection and replace spaces with underscores

Markdown Grammar

Command	Description
Heading upper	e.g.: `# Heading` -> `## Heading` (default shortcut: `Ctrl+Shift+]`)
Heading lower	e.g.: `## Heading` -> `# Heading` (default shortcut: `Ctrl+Shift+[`) [discussions]
Callout format	#80

List

Command	Description
Detect and format bullet list ⚙️	Change `•` into bullet list, i.e. `-` ; split every bullet point into single line; and remove blank lines. (test cases)
Detect and format ordered list	Change `*)`(star could be any letter) into ordered list (e.g. `1.` , `2.` ); split every ordered point into single line; and remove blank lines. (#4)
Convert table to bullet list	The first volume is 1st list, other volumes are sub-list
Convert table to bullet list with header	Sub-list begins with `${header}:`
Sort to-do list	#37, #46

Links

Command	Description
Remove WikiLinks format in selection	e.g. Convert `[[WikiLinks]]` to `WikiLinks` (#28)
Remove URL links format in selection	e.g. Convert `[Google](www.google.com)` to `Google`
Convert URL links to WikiLinks in selection	e.g. Convert `[Google](www.google.com)` to `[[Google]]`
Convert WikiLinks to plain markdown links in selection ⚙️	e.g. Convert `[[Google]]` to `[Google](Google.md)` (#40)

Copy / OCR issues

Command	Description
Remove redundant spaces in selection	Ensure only one space between words
Remove all spaces in selection	Remove all spaces
Remove trailing spaces in selection	Remove trailing spaces (#61)
Remove blank line(s)	replace `\n\n` with `\n`
Merge broken paragraph(s) in selection ⚙️	Change selected lines into single-line, except lines are separated by blank line(s). At the same time, blank lines will be merged into one blank line(optional, default enable), and redundant spaces will be removed(optional, default enable).
Split line(s) by blanks	Replace with `\n` for OCR use case.
Convert to Chinese punctuation marks (,;:!?) ⚙️	For OCR use case. (For who require more custom setting, I would recommend https://p.gantrol.com/)
Convert to English punctuation marks	Similar to `Convert to Chinese punctuation marks (,;:!?)`
Remove hyphens	Remove hyphens (like when pasting text from pdf) #15
Replace ligature	Replace ligature to Non-ligature #24

Academic / Study

Command	Description
Convert selection into Anki card format	#32
Remove citation index	e.g., `A research [12] about notes` => `A research about notes`
Get Zotero note from clipboard and paste ⚙️	See below ⬇️
Detect and convert characters to math mode (LaTeX)	e.g. convert `P` into $P$ (latex), apply for all single letter except `a`.
Convert Mathpix array to markdown table	Convert latex array generated by Mathpix to markdown table format

Advanced custom

Command	Description
Custom Replace ⚙️	Custom replace `<search>` to `<replace>`. See below for more examples ⬇️
Custom Wrapper ⚙️	Add any arbitrary wrapping element in Setting. (Benature/obsidian-underline#5) See below for more examples ⬇️
Custom API Request ⚙️	Replace Selection with the return of custom API request. The selection will be sent to custom API URL with `POST` method. (No user data is collected!) There is an example of my use case.

Others

Command	Description
Decode URL	Decode URL for better reading and shorter url.
Add extra double spaces per paragraph for whole file	Add double spaces at the end of every paragraph #8
Add extra line break to paragraph	replace `\n` with `\n\n`
Format space between word and symbol	add space between words and `(`

Support

If you find this plugin useful and would like to support its development, you can sponsor me via Buy Me a Coffee ☕️, WeChat, Alipay or AiFaDian. Any amount is welcome, thank you!

Some Examples

Zotero format

The format template can refer to https://www.zotero.org/support/note_templates

default
- zotero: {{highlight quotes='true'}} {{citation}} {{comment}}
- plugin config: “(?<text>.*)” $(?<item>.*?)$ $\[pdf\]\((?<pdf_url>.*?)$\)
- result: {text} [🔖]({pdf_url})

Replacements

use cases:

Split paragraph into sentences: #78

Wrapper

use cases:

Underline: prefix=, suffix=, then selected text will turn into text
Font color: #30

Convert citation index to the file name of paper note

With bib-cacher, I can connect to Zotero database by python, building a simple Flask server.

Example of command Custom API Request:

- A survey concludes that obsidian is a good app [12]. Furthermore, The note taking...
+ A survey concludes that obsidian is a good app ([[File Name of the Reference]]). Furthermore, The note taking...

Basic

lowercase

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ hello, i am using obsidian.

uppercase

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ HELLO, I AM USING OBSIDIAN.

capitalize word

- Hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I Am Using Obsidian.

capitalize sentence

- hello, I am using Obsidian.
+ Hello, I am using Obsidian.
  ^

title case

- Obsidian is a good app.
+ Obsidian Is a Good App.
              ^

slugify

- Obsidian - a good app.
+ obsidian-a-good-app

snakify

- Obsidian is a good app
+ obsidian_is_a_good_app

redundant spaces

- There  are so   many redundant      blanks
+ There are so many redundant blanks

merge broken paragraph

- This paragraph is broken 
- into several lines. I want 
- those lines merged!
- 
- And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between 
- two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into 
- one paragraph!

+ This paragraph is broken into several lines. I want those lines merged!
+
+ And this is second paragraph. There is a blank line between two paragraph, indicating that they should not be merged into one paragraph!

bullet list

- • first, blahblah • second, blahblah • third, blahblah

+ - first, blahblah 
+ - second, blahblah 
+ - third, blahblah

ordered list

- a) first, blahblah b) second, blahblah c) third, blahblah
- i) first, blahblah ii) second, blahblah iii) third, blahblah

+ 1. first, blahblah 
+ 2. second, blahblah 
+ 3. third, blahblah

Benature/obsidian-text-format

Text Format

Features

Commands

Basic

Markdown Grammar

List

Links

Copy / OCR issues

Academic / Study

Advanced custom

Others

Support

Some Examples

Zotero format

Replacements

Wrapper

Convert citation index to the file name of paper note

Basic