/quickadd

QuickAdd for Obsidian

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QuickAdd

Quickly add new pages or content to your vault.

Demo video

Demo video

Installation

This plugin is in the community plugin browser in Obsidian. You can search for it and install it there .

You can also do a manual installation.

What's new?

0.5.4 - 0.5.5

  • Improved the file suggester: now suggests by alias and has a better display.

0.5.0 - 0.5.3

  • Added support for scripts on mobile devices.
  • (0.5.1) Exposed Obsidian API for scripts. Only works for desktop usage.
  • (0.5.2) Hotfix: don't override pinned panes.
  • (0.5.3) Hotfix: fixed bug where, when capturing a task, an extra newline was added.

0.4.19 - 0.4.22

  • Fix issues preventing the creation of folders with Template choices.
  • Allow format syntax in folder names in Template Choices.
  • Add CSS classes to all modals to indicate they're QuickAdd modals.
  • Bugfix for wide input prompt in API. Thanks to @mrmrmrfinch

0.4.18

  • Add multi-line input prompt

0.4.9

  • Implement Math Modals - a WYSIWYG LaTeX formula prompt
  • Input prompt file name search is now based on file names, rather than file paths.
  • Input prompt is now closer to Obsidian UI (uses Obsidian API)

0.4.6

  • Bugfix: user scripts with settings are no longer repeated.
  • Add getSelectedText to the QuickAdd API under utility.

0.4.1 - 5

  • Bugfix: Template Choices now correctly detects if the file it's trying to create already exists. If it does, you will be prompted to append, prepend, overwrite, or do nothing - and it'll open the file for you.
  • Update error message when failing to create note to make it more understandable
  • Fix RegExp bug
  • User scripts with settings are now not forced to use entry function
  • Obsidian commands are fixed in the macro list and should now behave property

0.4.0

  • Massive improvements to user scripts and the API:
    • You can now define settings for user scripts, which can be configured in Obsidian.
    • Exposed format in the API, which will evaluate format syntax like {{DATE}}, {{VALUE}}, and so on.
    • Exposed a new date module in the API with methods for retrieving and formatting dates.
  • Added settings for opening files in edit or preview mode.
  • Added settings for automatically focusing the opened file.
  • Improved the folder selector search in Template choices.
  • You can now rename Multis.

Getting started

The first thing you'll want to do is add a new choice. A choice can be one of four types.

In your choices, you can use format syntax, which is similar to the Obsidian template syntax.

You could, for example, use {{DATE}} to get the current date.

I'm ready to augment my workflow 🚀

That's the spirit. What do you want to do?

I want to...

Be inspired

Take a look at some examples...

Create powerful scripts and macros to automate my workflow

Take a look at the QuickAdd API, format syntax, inline scripts, and macros.

Use QuickAdd even when Obsidian is minimized / in the background

You got it. Take a look at this AutoHotKey script.