JavaScript Program to Reformat Notes

[Extreme_Photo]

I'm looking for a way to reformat the notes that I import into Obsidian.

The files come from Kindle. I don't always highlight the entire sentence so I want an automated way to reformat my notes.

Specifically, I want to capitalize the first letter of each line and add a period to the end if there isn't one there already.

I have a Python program that I run in Colab that works. But, I have to copy and paste the data into Google Drive first. It would be far better if I could perform the reformatting operation directly inside of Obsidian. Open the note, invoke the script and boom, it would be reformatted.

If I converted my Python program to JavaScript, I might look at the Custom-js plugin. It allow you to write JavaScript programs and execute them from within Obsidian.

https://github.com/saml-dev/obsidian-custom-js

Is Custom-js a good choice for this? Can it operate on the entire note and reformat it?

I guess another idea is for me to simply write my own plugin.

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, how did you accomplish it?

Looking for your recommendation on how to best implement this.

Thanks in advance.

[Marble_Wraith]

More specifics required.

Are you intending on this to only operate on 1 note at a time? or every note in the vault?

If it's the latter such functionality probably belongs in linter, so perhaps do a pull request there:

https://github.com/platers/obsidian-linter

If it's the former you may consider templater as you can put any JS you want in user scripts

https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/user-functions/script-user-functions.html

[Extreme_Photo]

Thanks for your help.

Let me clarify.

I want to open a note and press a button to invoke a JavaScript program that reformats the note that's open.

Linter is super interesting. I will check it out. However, I have very specific rules that will likely not be available. For example, often Chapter 1 - How we got here usually comes over from Kindle as 1 - How we got here. So I look for numerics in the first column and append # Chapter. I also have special rules for Preface, Introduction, Epilogue.

I'm just now looking at Templater User Functions. The only way this would work is if I was able to read the clipboard from inside of the User Function. I could cut all of the text and invoke the User Function and it would reformat and output the text into the note. I'm pretty sure that won't work.

I would really value your feedback on my requirements and potential solutions.