Bullet-base

Turn the lines you are looking at into an entry in one of your bases.

A base is a query over notes, so an entry is a note: one that lives in the folder the base filters on and carries the properties its filters expect. Bullet-base writes that note for you and leaves a link behind.

  - Fix the deck              ─ select, run the command, pick Todo.base ─▶   Efforts/Backlog/Fix the deck.md
    - order boards                                                          ---
    - rent saw                                                              Done: false
                                                                            ---
  - [[Fix the deck]]          ◀─ what the source note is left with          - order boards
                                                                            - rent saw

Use

1. Select the lines (or just put the cursor on one).
2. Run Convert selection to base entry.
3. Paste a base link — [[Todo.base]], ![[Todo.base#Daily]], an obsidian:// URL, or start typing a name. The base you used last is prefilled.
4. Pick the view, check the preview, hit Enter.

Convert selection to last used base skips the prompt entirely, for capturing several things in a row.

• The first selected line becomes the note's name; the rest becomes its body, dedented.
• List markers, checkboxes, headings, **bold** and [[links]] are stripped from the name; characters that are illegal in file names are removed. An existing name gets 2, 3, …
• The selected lines are replaced by a link, keeping their indent and bullet — so an outline stays an outline. This is configurable (leave them alone, or remove them).

Which properties get written

Only what the base's filters require, read from the base file and the view you picked:

Filter	Written
file.inFolder("Efforts/Backlog")	the note goes there
file.hasTag("clippings")	tags: [clippings]
Done != true	Done: false
AddToList == true, Prio == 1, Status == "open"	that value
note["Read Date"].isEmpty()	the key, left empty

Anything else — Prio > 2, isNotEmpty(), or/not branches — is listed in the prompt as not auto-filled rather than guessed at. Everything else about the note is left for you to fill in from the base's table.

A base with no folder filter uses the fallback folder from settings, or the folder the .base file is in.

Settings

• Selected lines — replace with a link (default), leave alone, or remove.
• Open the new entry — off by default; the point is to stay where you are.
• Fallback folder — for bases with no file.inFolder(…) filter.

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # watch build
npm test         # headless checks, no Obsidian needed
npm run build    # typecheck + production bundle
BULLETBASE_VAULT="$HOME/MyVault" npm run deploy

MIT.