Templater Calendar Question

[ddetton]

Hey Bryan, I converted my Obsidian daily note template to templater and ran into a little problem that I couldn't figure out so I reverted back to Calendar functions. Sometimes I forget to write my daily note. When this happens I will open the calendar and click on the day that I missed and it creates the daily note for that day. When I tried to do this with templater, I couldn't figure out how to get the date that I clicked in the calendar. It worked fine I was creating the note for today but not for any other day where it needed to create the file. Do you see a way to do that in templater? Here is what I have now that does what I want using the Calendar functions:

[[{{date-1d:YYYY-MM-DD}}]] <- Today -> [[{{date+1d:YYYY-MM-DD}}]]

Daily Note for {{date:dddd, MMMM D, YYYY}}

[tallguyjenks]

Here you go :)

[[<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1)%>]] <- Today -> [[<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 1)%>]]

<%tp.date.now("dddd, MMMM D, YYYY")%>

[ddetton]

Yeah, that's what I originally thought too. Here is my use case. I have Liam's calendar open and I forgot to enter the daily note for Sunday, April 11, so I click on April 11 in the calendar to create that daily note. When I have my original date functions, in my Daily Note Template the daily note for April 11 is created with Sunday, April 11 as my main heading in the note. When I use the function with tp.date.now("dddd, MMMM D, YYYY"), it creates the April 11 daily note, but the date that is printed inside the note is today's date 4-13-2021. Try it and let me know if you get different results.

I tried it with Periodic Notes plug in enabled and Daily Note core disabled and vise-versa and get same results.

[tallguyjenks]

yeah the tempaltes all input the current date tp.date.now so that going to be the behavior. Perosnally i just make the daily notes every day so I never have an issue, if I needed to I don't mind manually correcting one.

i don't know if this will work but using the calendar date fields with the gggg-MM-DD date string might help it might not. i honestly just never had this issue come up

[ddetton]

I thought that I saw an option to automatically create a daily note each day but now I can't find it.

Thanks for the new youtube on outliner, dataview and templater! Three pretty incredible additions to the Obsidian ecosystem.

I found it. It's in the core Daily Notes plug-in. Are you using that or do you just do it manually?

[tallguyjenks]

i do it manually :)