markdown-field-converter

Markdown YAML field name converter

This script is a tool to change the YAML field name to new name to allow dataview plug-in of Obsidian to read.

Change and background

The change rules are

• data created to data-created (from Obsidian linter)
• data modified to data-modified (from Obsidian linter)
• data updated to data-updated (this is old field name from pretty plug-in)

The reason of change is the Obsidian dataview plug-in cannot identify the field name with the white space. In its document, the field with white space will be change from data created to date-created transparently. However, the current version in my Obsidian, the plug-in cannot work correctly.

Usage

The script will rewrite all markdown document with UTF-8 encording for these target field names.

markdown-field-converter --dir=<target document directory>

Please make try with small amount of documents and create backup before the change.