Slash snippets

Quickly insert your most-used text snippets while writing in Obsidian. Perfect for things like Dataview blocks, callouts, templates, or any reusable text.

Setup

• Pick a trigger character, by default, it’s / (slash).
• Enter the folder path where you'll keep all your text snippets.
• Set a folder path where you will be store all your text snippets.
• Turn on Ignore properties if you don’t want property values included when inserting snippets.
• Enable Templater support if you want to use Templater syntax inside snippets.
• Add your snippets to the folder you specified.

How to install

Currently its under review , you can install using BRAT plugin or manually

Manual Installation

• Download main.js , manifest.json , styles.css the latest release from the releases page
• create a folder name slash-snippets-plugin in .obsidian/plugins
• put all the file you downloaded in your vault's .obsidian/plugins/slash-snippets-plugin/ directory
• Reload Obsidian
• Enable the plugin in Settings -> Community Plugins

Text Variables

cursor position

use %%cursor%% in the snippet file to have a predefined position after the snippet is inserted.

Example:

<iframe src="%%cursor%%" height="400px" width="100%"></iframe>

Text selection insert

insert last selected text into snippet.

Example

> [!faq]- %%textSelection%%
> 

Here are some inspirations for snippets

Colorful text

<span style='background:red; color: white'>%%cursor%%</span> 

Or this, if you want text selection

<span style='background:red; color: white'>%%cursor%%%%textSelection%%</span> 

Callouts

> [!faq]- Are callouts foldable?
> yes 

> [!success] 
> nice!

2 col table

| 1   | 2   |
| --- | --- |
|     |     |

3 col table

| 1   | 2   | 3   |
| --- | --- | --- |
|     |     |     |

4 col table

| 1   | 2   | 3   | 4   |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|     |     |     |     |
|     |     |     |     |

Html snippets

</br> </br>

<iframe src=" " height="400px" width="100%"></iframe>

mermaid chart

```mermaid
flowchart LR 
    Start --> Stop
```

Also you can mix with templater code to make powerful snippets**

Iframe

<iframe src="<% await tp.system.prompt("Ifram Url") %>" height="400px" width="100%"></iframe>

Markdown comment

<!-- <% tp.file.cursor() %> -->

You can create some snippets named as today, yesterday and so on

today

[[<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>]] 

tomorrow

[[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD" ,1) %>]] 

yesterday

[[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD" ,-1) %>]]

last week

[[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD" ,-7) %>]]

Quick dataview

```dataview
LIST FROM "<%tp.file.cursor()%>"
SORT file.mtim DESC
```

```dataview
TABLE 
<%tp.file.cursor(1)%>
FROM "<%tp.file.cursor()%>"

WHERE
<%tp.file.cursor(2)%>

SORT file.mtim DESC
```

Progress bar for tasks in a note with inline dataview

`= "<progress value='" + (length(filter(this.file.tasks.completed, (t) => t = true)) / length(this.file.tasks)) * 100 + "' max='100'></progress>" + "<br>" + round((length(filter(this.file.tasks.completed, (t) => t = true)) / length(this.file.tasks)) * 100) + "% completed"`

List all backlinks

## Backlinks
```dataview
LIST FROM [[<%tp.file.title%>]]
```

List all outgoing links

## Outlinks
```dataview
LIST
WITHOUT ID
file.link
FROM  "/"

WHERE 
contains(file.inlinks ,[[<%tp.file.title%>]] )

```

AI Templates with obsidian-ai-templater plugin

Answer question about the note

<%*_
const content = tp.file.content
const userInput = await tp.system.prompt("What you want to write?")

let cleanContent = content.replace(/^-{3}[\s\S]*?-{3}\s*/gm, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%\*_[\s\S]*?_%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%[\s\S]*?%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.trim();

const prompt = `
${userInput}
Do this based on the note bellow , 
---
${cleanContent}
--

Do not add any yaml for notes, only do or asked as user said. keep it simple and short
`
const aiWrite = await tp.ai.chat(prompt)

_%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>
<% aiWrite %> 

Make summery of current note

<%*_
const content = tp.file.content

let cleanContent = content.replace(/^-{3}[\s\S]*?-{3}\s*/gm, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%\*_[\s\S]*?_%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%[\s\S]*?%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.trim();

const prompt = `
Make a summery of the text bellow 
---
${cleanContent}
--

Only make summery dont make heading or anything else, your output will be inserted into a note , so write it as a note's summery sections. 
`
const summery = await tp.ai.chat(prompt)
_%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>
## Summery
<% summery.trim() %>

Make tasks list for notes

<%*_
const content = tp.file.content
let cleanContent = content.replace(/^-{3}[\s\S]*?-{3}\s*/gm, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%\*_[\s\S]*?_%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%[\s\S]*?%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.trim();

const prompt = `
Read this notes bellow carefully and make markdown tasks list based on what the notes talking about doing or planning 
---
${cleanContent}
--

Only make tasks dont make heading or anything else, your output will be inserted into a note , so write it as a note's ## Todo's sections, so you dont have to write heading for todo's, Only markdown task 
ex: 
- [ ] something 
`
const tasks = await tp.ai.chat(prompt)
_%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>
## Todo's
<% tasks %>

Mermaid chart

<%*_
const content = tp.file.content
let cleanContent = content.replace(/^-{3}[\s\S]*?-{3}\s*/gm, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%\*_[\s\S]*?_%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%[\s\S]*?%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.trim();


const prompt = `
Read this notes bellow carefully and make top down mermaid flowchart based on what the notes talking about, include key points the note says
---
${cleanContent}
--
`
const mermaidChart = await tp.ai.chat(prompt)
_%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>
<% mermaidChart %> 

Answer question about note

<%*_
const content = tp.file.content
const userInput = await tp.system.prompt("What you want to write?")

let cleanContent = content.replace(/^-{3}[\s\S]*?-{3}\s*/gm, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%\*_[\s\S]*?_%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.replace(/<%[\s\S]*?%\>/g, '');
cleanContent = cleanContent.trim();

const prompt = `
${userInput}
Do this based on the note bellow , 
---
${cleanContent}
--

Do not add any yaml for notes, only do or asked as user said. keep it simple and short
`
const aiWrite = await tp.ai.chat(prompt)

_%>
<% tp.file.cursor() %>
<% aiWrite %>