Obsidian.md's Properties are very useful for adding miscellaneous information on notes, but there is currently no functionality for adding properties to multiple files at once. To make things more convenient for myself and others, I decided to make a plugin to introduce that functionality.
There are 3 kinds of note selections you can choose to add multiple properties at once.
- All notes in a folder. Right-click a folder.
- A selection of notes in the File Explorer. Select multiple notes with Shift+Mouse Click, then right-click the selection.
- All notes in a Search result. Click on the
# resultstext below the Search bar, and your Property options will pop up.
Right-click on one of the above selections to bring up an option to add Properties to all notes within a folder. Upon clicking this, a form will pop up asking you to input your Properties. Once you type in the Properties and desired values, submit the form and they will be added to all notes in the selection.
If you type in the name of an existing Property, your value will either override the current value of that Property on all of the notes in the selection, or the new value will be appended onto the existing value. Whichever one occurs will depend on your settings, which can be changed directly from the form. Note that this will only work with text-based Properties.
Right-clicking a selection will also pull up an option to remove selected Properties from a group of notes. The property selected will be permanently deleted from all notes you initially targeted, so use caution. Back up your files if you want to be on the safe side.
This project is available as an Obsidian community plugin that can be installed directly in the app. Go to Settings->Community Plugins->Browser, and search the name Multi Properties.
If you wish to install it outside of Obsidian's Community Plugins menu, follow these steps.
- Download the latest release.
- Extract the folder within the zip file in the current release, and add it to
<yourVault>/.obsidian/plugins/.