Obsidian Bulk Rename Plugin

Introduction

Now you can rename a bunch of files from the directory and all references also will be updated acros the vault.

Under the hood this plugin is using obsidian API for renaming, but we just applying it for many files

Features

Whenever we're updating Replacement Symbols you can set new Directory Location too so, you can also move files to another directory

Rename/Move files based on folder location

Click Search By Folder

Update Folder Location where are you wanting to get files from, put Existing Characters from the file path later on update Replacement Symbols those symbols will be used for in a new path.

Rename/Move files based on tags

Click Search By Tags

Put tags in Tags names field search will be completed across the vault, use coma separator if you need more than 1 tag Click Refresh Update Existing Characters field with a pattern you are looking for in existing notes, set Replacement Symbols

Click Preview or Enter to see intermediate results(nothing will be changed/moved/renamed).

Click Rename whenever you done

Update files based on tags

API

folder location - Files from which folder you need to rename
Symbols in existing files - the symbols/characters that we have in the files
Replacement Symbols - a new symbols that will be pasted instead
Files within the folder - this is for information purpose

Rename Button Rename files will start renaming all files by respective path.

Motivation

This plugin was developed to cover my needs. Originally I've started to use my daily files with _ delimiter. So my files looked like this: 2022_01_01, over the time I realized other platform out of the bos configured to prefer dashes.

Here is many guides on how to rename files, what kind of script we need to run, what version of python or Node.js we need to install and so on.

Why Not to have this functionality build-in into Obsidian?

And rename a bunch of files and update their reference in code base respectively. So now you can rename a bunch of files from the directory and all imports also will be updated in a code-base

Installing

The plugin in beta. To beta test, you can install the plugin using BRAT (see BRAT > Adding a beta plugin for further instructions).

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