Obsidian: Creating a new note from selected text

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When working in Obsidian in can be natural to “organize as you go”. One natural thing to want to do is right things in one note - then decide there is too much detail and create a new note with a region - and it can be helpful if this as simple as possible.

This is the sort of thing that is easy in Plugin REPL . If you execute the following code in plugin repl:

newCommand(async function send_selection_to_file() {
	let filename = await promptString("File to send selection to:")
	await writeFile(filename, selection())
	kill()
	insert(`[[${filename}]]`)
})

then you will have a command to send a region to a new file that you can run form the

You might also like the Note Refactor plugin, which provides similar functionality.

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