How to Batch Move Obsidian Notes

For better organization and note management in Obsidian

If you’re an avid user of Obsidian, you know how crucial it is to keep your notes organized.

However, you may find yourself needing to restructure and move notes between folders to maintain order as your vault grows.

Manually moving notes one by one can be tedious and time-consuming, especially if you have hundreds or thousands of notes to manage.

Fortunately, Obsidian offers a solution. Not obsidian itself, but the powerful Obsidian Community Plugins.

The Problem

Recently, I faced a situation where I needed to move my book notes from my personal vault to a separate vault for my Patreon members.

All my book notes including others like podcasts, articles, videos, etc. were stored in a single “Resources” folder. This made it difficult to identify and move the relevant book notes.

Manually sorting through and moving each note would have been incredibly inefficient.

The Solution

After some research, I discovered a better way to move notes in batch using the Dataview and File Cooker plugins. With these two plugins, you can perform powerful batch operations in…