Copy as Context

Select text in a note and copy it together with where it came from — the note path, line numbers and the headings it sits under — ready to paste into an AI chat or a terminal agent such as Claude Code or Codex. You can also copy a folder as a ├── / └── tree.

Copy a selection

Select some text, then use any of:

• Right-click → Copy as context (editing view)
• Command palette → Copy as Context: Copy selection as context
• A hotkey you assign in Settings → Hotkeys (the plugin sets none by default)

What lands on the clipboard (Markdown format):

File: projects/launch/script.md (lines 12-20, section: Intro > Hook)
```markdown
…the selected text…
```

• Line numbers start at 1 and match the file on disk, frontmatter included, so an agent can open the file at those lines.
• With multiple cursors, each selection becomes its own block.
• In reading view, the plugin finds the blocks (paragraphs, lists, headings…) your selection touches and copies their original Markdown with exact line numbers, instead of the rendered text with its formatting stripped. This also works when the same sentence appears more than once in the note.

Copy a folder tree

Right-click a folder in the file explorer → Copy folder tree:

Folder: projects/launch
```text
launch/
├── footage/
│   ├── clip2.mp4
│   └── clip10.mp4
├── notes.md
└── script.md
```

Folders come first and end with /. Big folders such as node_modules can be left out with the Exclude setting.

Settings

Install

From Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search for “Copy as Context”.

Manually: download main.js and manifest.json from the latest release into <vault>/.obsidian/plugins/copy-as-context/, then enable the plugin under Settings → Community plugins.

Development

npm install
npm test          # unit tests for formatting and tree logic
npm run build     # type-check and bundle main.js
npm run install-plugin -- /path/to/vault   # copy main.js and manifest.json into a vault

License

MIT