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farux / obsidian-auto-note-mover

This is a plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md).
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Feature request: Choose folders, where rule should be applied #12

Open ko13 opened 2 years ago

ko13 commented 2 years ago

(Great plugin! Thanks for making it!)

I really like the option to exclude folders completely. However, I'd like to have the reverse: Let a rule be valid only for specific folders.

I want to move files from inbox to my garden when updating a status tag. However, I only want that to happen in the inbox. I don't want to accidentally move other notes. Now, I can exclude all other folders. But that means, I won't be able to add any more rules. I really like to also move projects from a doing folder to an archive for example.

So, it would be great if we could choose the folders where a specific rule applies.

farux commented 2 years ago

Hi. Technically it is possible, but at this point I am putting it on hold, because it would be too complicated and I am not sure if other users would be able to understand it. In fact, I' ve had some people ask about not being able to move notes when adding excluded folders. If I get this request a lot, I will think about it. For now, please use the excluded folder.

PeterKnight commented 1 year ago

I've been looking for this feature as well...folder specific rules. I want to notes from the root notes folder to a topical folder. The problem is then that if I decide to move the note to a more specific nested folder, it would be moved back if the rule gets triggered again.

Another solution might be to be able to add or remove tags after they are moved... #topic-inbox could trigger the move to a folder, but then it would strip the #topic-inbox tag and replace it with just #topic

Another solution would be to have some kind of 'touch once' logic option.