Obsidian Custom Attachment location

Customize attachment location with variables($filename, $data, etc) like typora.

Features

• Modify location for attachment folder.
• Modify filename for Pasted Image.

⚠️ IMPORTANT: This plugin will overwrite the following two settings and restore them when the plugin is disabled.

• "Files & Links -> New link format -> Relative path to file" for generating md links.

• "Files & Links -> Default location for new attachments" for custom attachment folder.

How to use

Plugin Manager

• Install via the Third Party plugins setting. Search for Custom Attachment location.
• Activate the plugin in the settings.

Manual Install

• Download main.js, manifest.json in the latest release.
• Copy main.js, manifest.json to your vault VaultFolder/.obsidian/plugins/obsidian-custom-attachment-location/.
• Enable plugin in Obsidian setting.

Settings

• Location for New Attachments

  • Same to "Files & Links -> Default location for new attachments".
  • ${filename} representing for current note filename.
  • Put "./" at the beginning of the path if you want to use relative path.
  • example: "assets/${filename}", "./assets/${filename}"
  • DO NOT start with "/" or end with "/"
  • (Wrong example: "/assets/${filename}/")

• Pasted Image Name

  • ${filename} representing for current note filename. ${date} representing for current datetime in custom Date Format.
  • example: "image-${date}", "${filename}-img-${date}"
  • Obsidian default: "Pasted image YYYYMMDDHHmmss"
  • Note: This setting only changes image filename from clipboard. If your attachment is copied from the explorer, obsidian will just copy the original file to the attachment folder without renaming.

• Date Format

  • Date format string for moment.js.
  • More info: Format
  • example: "YYYYMMDDHHmmssSSS".

• Automatically rename attachment folder

  • Automatically update attachment folder name if "Location for New Attachments" contains ${filename}.

• Automatically rename attachment files [Experimental]

  • Automatically update attachment files in target md file if "Pasted Image Name" contains ${filename}.
  • Just simply substitute ${filename} string in attachment filename. So it may be dangerous if multiple files share the same prefix.

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