When I share project notes with team members that don’t use Obsidian, the current method is to export each note. When there are 20 notes to a project, this takes a while. Is there anything in the roadmap to allow people to select multiple files on the selection window and then use the same export button that already exists?
Definitely the feature I am missing the most. I kinda often need to share pdfs of reports, notes and other stuff.
Previously was using Ulysses, which lets you export multiple notes to pdf. Very sad, that Obsidian does not support this :c
Do you want one PDF per note, or one PDF with all notes?
If you want one PDF for all notes, one workaround might be to embed the individual notes in a single page, then create a PDF for that page. E.g.:
Well, I am mostly looking for a way to export either the whole vault to a single pdf or folders with all the notes in it into a single pdf.
The workaround is clever, thanks for that. However I would still prefer a native way of doing it. Because it can be very time consuming and error prone to embed every page by hand on larger vaults with many notes in it.
Is there a clever way to automatically create a ToC for a folder that will then automatically have the contents assembled to print as a single PDF file just by printing that one ToC file?
IOW, is there a way to avoid the manual process required to embed content?
– JJW
That’s an interesting challenge! I almost got it working. The following DataviewJS code will transclude every file in the given directory into the current note. It looks fine when I preview it. But unfortunately I get an error when I try to print the PDF. I’m not sure why.
```dataviewjs
// Gather all pages in the Scratch directory
const pages = dv.pages('"Scratch"')
// Sort by file name
.sort(page => page.file.path);
// For each page...
for (const page of pages) {
// (except this one -- no infinite loops!)
if (page.file.path == dv.current().file.path) { continue; }
// ...create an embed link.
dv.paragraph("![[" + page.file.path + "]]");
}
+1 for this feature
Sometimes I need to review information outside of Obsidian. It would help a lot if I could group my notes in one PDF and export them. Having everything in one PDF is helpful because sometimes I just want to quickly read through the information.
I hope this feature will get added to Obsidian at some point.
I was thinking about how this feature could become as useful as possible, and there were a few things that came to mind. If this feature gets implemented, it would be best if several different export options are provided. For example, we can choose to export all of our notes in one PDF, or we can export only notes from specific sections as a PDF. When I say specific sections of our notes, I mean notes that contain a certain tag. For instance, I might pick a specific tag, such as the tag “#focus”, and all of the notes that contain this tag will be grouped and exported as a single PDF. Additionally, it would be useful if we could pick multiple tags to export together in one PDF, since sometimes several tags may be related to one another, so it would be best to export them together.
Also, when exporting based on tags, there should be an option to choose how much of our notes we want to export at a time. We may choose to export a single PDF that contains only notes with a specific tag(s), or we may decide to export all of our notes from that vault as a ZIP file where each of the tags is automatically saved as a separate PDF file.
To add to this, it would be useful if we were able to export our notes not only as PDF, but also in other popular formats such Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx). This is especially helpful because it would give us the flexibility to edit the documents after we export them.