Mara-Li/obsidian-metacopy

A simple way to copy a frontmatter key in obsidian, and create an url from it !

This plugin recommended being used with Obsidian To Mkdocs.

Obsidian — MetaCopy

The purpose of this plugin is to get quickly the value of a front matter key. You can set multiple value in settings, as : key1, key2, key3, ...

If the plugin found multiple key in the front matter :

1. The context takes the first value from the front matter.
2. The command creates a menu where you can choose the value you want.

The value added in your pasteboard, so you can paste it everywhere.

Yeah. That's it.

Here is the plugin in action :

Links creator

Base options

If you want to create a link to a page, you can use this plugin.

⚠️ This function only work if you have a frontmatter.

There are 3 possibles configuration :

• Creating link using a default folder
• Creating link using the base link plus the relative obsidian path
• Creating the link using a frontmatter key.

Fixed folder

The resulted link will be {your_base_link}/{default_folder}/{filename}/.

💭 Folder note option is disabled with this option.

Obsidian Path option

The resulted link will be : {your_base_link}/{obsidian_path}/{filename}/.

Frontmatter

You can create a link using a front matter key.

1. The key must be both in key and in key link
2. You need to configure the base link

The link creator works as the main plugin : file menu will take the first value, so if this value is the link key, it will create a link.

You can also set a default value, that will be a fallback in case of the absence of a category key & value.

Furthermore, the editor menu will add an option to copy the link if it exists.

Folder note support

You can enable the support of folder note (with the “folder name” behavior) to create link without the file's name if it's the same of the last folder of the link key.

️🗒️ Example : Obsidian Path

• If you set as default value : docs
• If your file is named noteIndex and their folder myFolder
• The link will be {your_base_link}/{obsidian_path}/docs/myFolder/

🗒️ Example : Frontmatter

• If you set link_key: folder1/folder2/noteIndex
• If your file is named noteIndex
• The result link will be : {base_link}/folder1/folder2/noteIndex/

⚠️ This option is not compatible with the Fixed Folder option.

Disable menu

You can disable the menu using a front matter key. There are two behaviors :

1. Settings enabled : The key must be present and set to true to enable the menu.
2. Setting is disabled: The default behavior. The key must be absent or set to false to disable the menu.

Regardless of the option, the command modal continue to work.

Obsidian Mkdocs

Furthermore, the plugin recommended being used with Obsidian To Mkdocs to copy link without editing the source file.

To use Obsidian2mkdocs with Metacopy, here is the configuration :

This template allows copying a link, as you will do with Notion or Google Docs ( for example).

The file template will be :

title: 
category: something/like/that
share: true

Here is a demo :

The plugin is inspired by Copy Publish URL but for all link (instead of only publish).

🖥️ Development

• Fork / clone the repository
• npm install
• npm run dev (or npm run build)

Installation

1. You can use BRAT with the link to the repository.
2. You can use the community plugin registry.
3. Likewise, you can manually install the plugin using release and unzip obsidian-metacopy-x.x.xx.zip in your .obsidian/plugins folder.