Advanced Markdown Export

Send someone a note and it arrives broken: the images are missing and every [[link]] is dead. Copying the whole folder over-shares, and copying just the .md under-shares. This plugin walks the note's dependencies for you and shows them as a tree of checkboxes, so you decide exactly what travels with it — then writes the bundle out with its links still working.

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Demo vault

The documentation is a demo vault. Every feature has a note that explains what it does, with a worked example graph you can export yourself.

Start reading here — it is plain markdown, so it works on GitHub with nothing installed.

A copy of the vault ships with every release. You can access it via any of the following:

1. Running the Advanced Markdown Export: Open demo vault command.
2. Downloading advanced-markdown-export-demo-vault.zip from the Releases. It unzips into a single advanced-markdown-export-demo-vault-<version> folder.
3. Browsing its source in demo-vault/ in this repository.

What it does

Attachments and linked notes are not the same thing, so they do not get the same default. An embedded image is part of the note; a linked note is a separate document you may or may not want to hand over. So attachments arrive checked and linked notes arrive unchecked:

[x] A.md
  [x] A1.jpg
  [x] A2.jpg

  [ ] B.md

Depth is driven by your ticks, not by a number you guess up front. Tick B.md and it expands, applying the same rule one level deeper — B's attachments come in checked, B's own linked notes do not:

[x] A.md
  [x] A1.jpg
  [x] A2.jpg
  [x] B.md
    [x] B3.jpg
    [x] B4.jpg
    [ ] C.md

The export has many roots. Start from one note, from a multi-selection in the file explorer, or from a whole folder — every note in it becomes a root, and the tree becomes a forest.

A running total, before you commit to it. The dialog keeps a live file count and total size above the tree, so "is this export getting huge?" is answered while you are still ticking rather than after the bundle is written.

Links that survive the trip. The bundle keeps its vault-relative structure, so links between included files still resolve after extraction and two files with the same name cannot collide. Links to files you left out are handled by a policy you choose rather than silently breaking.

Usage

• Right-click a note in the file explorer → Export with dependencies.
• Right-click a folder → every note in it becomes a root.
• Select several files, right-click → Export with dependencies.
• Command palette → Export active note with its dependencies.

On the desktop, Export opens a system directory picker, so the bundle can land anywhere — including outside your vault. On mobile there is no such picker, so it goes to a vault-relative folder instead. Either way, turning on Create a ZIP archive gives you a single .zip rather than a folder.

Installation

The plugin is not yet listed in the official Community Plugins repository. Until it is, install it as a beta release.

Beta versions

To install the latest beta release of this plugin (regardless if it is available in the official Community Plugins repository or not), follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have the BRAT plugin installed and enabled.
2. Click Install via BRAT.
3. An Obsidian pop-up window should appear. In the window, click the Add plugin button once and wait a few seconds for the plugin to install.

Debugging

By default, debug messages for this plugin are hidden.

To show them, run the following command in the DevTools Console:

window.DEBUG.enable('advanced-markdown-export');

For more details, refer to the documentation.

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in the CHANGELOG.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome — see CONTRIBUTING to get set up.

Support

My other Obsidian resources

See my other Obsidian resources.

License

© Michael Naumov