Batch Rename Part of Title

[bswiss56 8]

I have a lot of notes containing the date in the title  e.g. 2015/01/01. Since in many situations the forward slash is not usable but the underscore sign instead more likely, could any one tell me if there is a to have a batch renaming such note titles. 

Thx

 

[DTLow 5,736]

6 hours ago, bswiss56 said:

could any one tell me if there is a to have a batch renaming such note titles. ...Since in many situations the forward slash is not usable but the underscore sign instead more likely

Not that I know of

Can you give examples where the forward slash is not useable?
Its what I'm currently using as my Insert Date Preference; it was the only short form option

[bswiss56 8]

Also when I want to automatize the scan naming...

Well it is ok if we do not have a tool to rename a bunch of notes. I will take my time and do it manually. It is really no problem. It would have been nice. That's all. But thank you for thinking along with me.

 

[CalS 5,280]

1 hour ago, DTLow said:

Not that I know of

Can you give examples where the forward slash is not useable?

I don;t believe / is searchable whereas _ is.  So the underscore lets you search for the exact date if you enter dates per the OP.

[DTLow 5,736]

1 hour ago, bswiss56 said:

Well it is ok if we do not have a tool to rename a bunch of notes.

Do you have scripting tools?

On my Mac, I would be looking at an AppleScript if I had a lot of notes.

[bswiss56 8]

I will try to find some scripting solution for this matter. That will take some time. Nothing urgent anyway.

Thanks for your support for now.

 

[CalS 5,280]

@bswiss56

A tool for Windows is PhaseExpress.  You could create a macro such that if you were positioned at the first slash like <delete> <insert _> <right 2> <delete><insert _>.  Give it a hot key like <ctrl>.<alt><left mouse click> or the like and it should make the manual process a bit quicker.

[JMichaelTX 4,117]

5 hours ago, bswiss56 said:

I will try to find some scripting solution for this matter.

If PhaseExpress, or other macro tool, will support Find & Replace, you could build a macro that does this:

1. Start with a filtered list of Notes that contain the date in the Title
2. Click on first note
   
   RUN THE MACRO WHICH DOES THE FOLLOWING:
    
3. Moves to Title block
4. Selects the Title
5. Copies the Selection
6. Replace "/" with "_"
7. Move back to Note list
8. Move down to next Note
9. Run Steps 3-8

I don't have PhaseExpress, but the documentation did mention this, but not sure how it works:

{#REPLACE Text -OLDTEXT OldText -NEWTEXT NewText}

[bswiss56 8]

Thank you to all of you for your great help.

 

[CalS 5,280]

You are welcome.

[JMichaelTX 4,117]

16 hours ago, bswiss56 said:

Thank you to all of you for your great help.

You're welcome.  Please let us know if you find an automated solution to this.