Highlight-Extractor

An Obsidian plugin that extracts highlights (==text==), bold text (**text**) or full note content from your notes, builds summaries from your daily notes, and can apply a different daily-note template for specific weekdays.

Features

Extraction

• Extract highlights / bold / all text from:
  • the last day, last week or last month of daily notes
  • the active note
  • all notes in the active folder
• Copy to clipboard from the active note.
• Custom extraction modal (ribbon icon or command): pick any source notes (with search and "Select all visible"), choose a target note to append to, and choose:
  • what to extract (highlights, bold, both, all text)
  • context scope (exact text, full sentence, full paragraph)
  • formatting (preserve markup, remove formatting, swap highlight to bold)
• Dynamic code block that renders extracted items live inside a note (see Usage).

Daily notes tools

• Weekday templates: use a different template for specific weekdays (for example, a special template for Saturdays) when a new daily note is created.
• Archive by month: move daily notes of a chosen month into a MM-YYYY subfolder.

Installation

From the Community Plugins browser

1. Open Settings → Community plugins.
2. Turn off Restricted mode if it is on, then select Browse.
3. Search for Highlight-Extractor, select Install, then Enable.

Manual installation

1. Download main.js and manifest.json (and styles.css if present) from the latest release.
2. Create the folder <your vault>/.obsidian/plugins/highlight-extractor/ and copy the files into it.
3. Reload Obsidian, open Settings → Community plugins, and enable Highlight-Extractor.

Usage

Quick setup

1. Open Settings → Highlight-Extractor.
2. Select your Daily Notes Folder and set the Daily Notes Date Format to match your daily note file names (for example YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY).
3. Optionally choose the output location, output format, extraction context and a required tag filter.

Commands

Open the command palette and search for "Extract" or "Copy". For each of Highlights (==), Bold (**) and All Text the following commands are available:

Additional commands:

• Extract selected notes to specific note: opens the custom extraction modal (also available from the ribbon icon).
• Archive notes by month to MM-YYYY folder: moves the daily notes of the selected month into a MM-YYYY subfolder of your daily notes folder.
• Apply weekday template to active daily note (overwrites content): applies the matching weekday template to the current note, replacing its content.

Custom extraction

1. Run Extract selected notes to specific note.
2. Choose the target note that the results will be appended to.
3. Search and tick the source notes (or use Select All Visible).
4. Choose what to extract, the context scope and the text formatting.
5. Select Extract & Append, or Copy to Clipboard to copy instead.

Dynamic code block

Add a code block with the language highlights-extractor to any note to show extracted items live. The block updates automatically when matching notes change.

```highlights-extractor
timeframe: last-week
folder: Daily
tag: #Daily
mode: both
```

The timeframe filter relies on the Daily Notes Date Format setting to read dates from file names.

Weekday templates

1. In the plugin settings, turn on Enable weekday templates.
2. Select Add weekday rule, choose a weekday, and enter the path of the template note (suggestions appear while you type).
3. When a new daily note is created for that weekday, its content is replaced with the weekday template. Other weekdays keep your default daily note template.

Supported variables inside the template note:

• {{title}}: the note name
• {{date}} or {{date:FORMAT}}: the date of the daily note (default YYYY-MM-DD)
• {{time}} or {{time:FORMAT}}: the current time (default HH:mm)

Note: the weekday is read from the note's file name, so the Daily Notes Date Format setting must match your daily note names.

Settings overview

Support

If you find a bug or have a feature request, please open an issue on the project's repository.