Actions

An action is an operation Folderer performs on a file when a rule fires. Each rule can have one or more actions; they run sequentially in the order they are listed.

Available Actions

Action	Description
Append Text	Adds text to the end of the file
Prepend Text	Adds text to the beginning of the file
Move to Date Subfolder	Moves the file into a subfolder named after the current date
Move to Property Subfolder	Moves the file into a subfolder taken from a frontmatter property
Move Attachments	Moves all embedded attachments into a subfolder next to the note

Execution Order

Actions within a rule run sequentially in the order they are listed. Reorder them using the arrow buttons inside the rule modal.

Order matters when:

• One action moves a file that a subsequent action also targets
• One action modifies a frontmatter property that a subsequent action reads

Common Behaviors

Text modifications are atomic. Append Text and Prepend Text use Obsidian's vault.process() API, which performs an atomic read-modify-write. This prevents data loss when the same file is modified by multiple rules or external processes simultaneously.

Move actions create folders automatically. If the destination subfolder does not exist, it is created before the file is moved.

Move actions skip no-ops. If the file is already at the target location, the move is skipped silently.

Attachment conflicts show a notice. If Move Attachments finds an attachment that already exists at the destination path, it skips that file and shows an Obsidian notice instead of overwriting.