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This wiki contains:

• documentation of the macros in this repository, and
• links to relevant shell scripting resources.

Macros

• assign Assign a UID
  Inserts a new UID at the cursor, in the pattern YYYYMMddHHmm.

• assign-finder Assign UIDs to Finder selection
  Appends new UIDs in the pattern (YYYYMMddHHmm) to the names of the files and/or folders selected in Finder.

• back-up Back up notes
  Copies all notes to a timestamped backup directory.

• clip Clip highlighted text in Firefox
  Copies the currently selected text in Firefox to a text file, with metadata, optionally with an annotation.

• find-replace Find and replace
  Performs a find and replace operation on the content but not the titles of all notes.

• ghfm GitHub Flavoured Markdown tasks
  Marks a GitHub Flavoured Markdown task as done ([x]) or not done ([ ]).

• open Open file or folder by UID
  Opens a file or folder outside the Zettelkasten, interpreting the currently highlighted text as a UID.

• rename Rename note and update [[wikilinks]] to it
  Renames a specified note and performs a find and replace operation on the content of all notes to update [[wikilinks]] to the renamed note. Assumes notes are wikilinked using full basenames (filenames without extensions) rather then UIDs.

• restore Restore notes from a backup
  Restores notes from a specified backup, such as to undo a recent find-replace operation.

• wikilink Insert wikilink
  Inserts a [[wikilink]] to a note identified using a list search. Given a target note 202007271447 Note Title.txt, it will output: [[202007271447 Note Title]]

• wikilink-uid Insert wikilink (UID only)
  Inserts a [[wikilink]] to a note identified using a list search. Given a target note 202007271447 Note Title.txt, it will output: [[202007271447]]