liamcain/obsidian-periodic-notes

Link to Weekly Note from Daily Note using the template

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adarsh commented

(cross posted to the forum here)

This might be a obvious question but the answer isn't making sense to me, so here goes:

How can I add something to the Daily Notes Template file which links to that week's Weekly Note?

As in:

(Daily Notes Template File)
# {{date:MMMM D, YYYY}} Work Journal

tags: #work_journal 

## Weekly Goals
(I want to autogenerate this preview link below, pointing to the first day of the week)
![[2023_03_05_weekly_note#Weekly Goals]]

## Today's Goals
1. text 

## Journal
- text

## Tomorrow's Priorities
1. text
SkydiveMike commented

I don’t know about native to this plugin, but you can achieve this goal with Templater.

For reference: I name my periodic notes with ISO date conventions:

  • Daily Notes: 2023-03-09
  • Weekly Notes: 2023-W10

In my Daily Note template, I have the following Templater code:

[[<%tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]WW", 0, tp.file.title)%>]]

It uses the templater tp.date module to:

  • First argument: "GGGG-[W]WW" format a date in the ISO week style
  • Second Argument: 0 add/subtract 0 days to the date
  • Third Argument: tp.file.title Us this file’s title as the date to format (not “now’)

So a note named 2023-03-09 will have that date reformated to 2023-W10.

And I stuff all of that between [[ and ]] to make it a link.

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SkydiveMike commented

Actually I see for you original question that you maybe just want one header. TBH the code above is simplified, I actually have:

![[<%tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]WW", 0, tp.file.title)%>#What are this week’s big three Plan for Success|Review this week’s Big Three]]

Which transcludes a Header Section from my Weekly note into my Daily Note.

adarsh commented

Thanks! I have tried this in my daily notes template `, which looks like this:

![[<%tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]WW", 0, tp.file.title)%>#Weekly Goals]]

And this is the result (this file does exist and is called 2023_03_12_weekly_note:
image

Any suggestions?

SkydiveMike commented

Did you enable Templater? It looks like the template code <% … %> is not being executed.

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adarsh commented

I figured it out.

I needed to enable "Settings > Templater > Trigger Template on new file creation".

At which point this gave me what I wanted:

![[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY_MM_DD", 0) %>_weekly_note#Weekly Goals]]

which generated

![[2023_05_21_weekly_note#Weekly Goals]]

My guess is there are two templating actions (with different formats) happening in Periodic Notes:

  1. The Periodic Notes plugin templating replacements (e.g. {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} format)
  2. The Templater plugin replacements, (e.g. <% tp.date.weekday... %>) which won't kick in when using Periodic Notes unless you enable the above trigger

So with the Templater trigger set, I can mix them both in my daily notes template file:

# {{date:MMMM D, YYYY}} Work Journal

tags: #work_journal  

![[<% tp.date.weekday("YYYY_MM_DD", 0) %>_weekly_note#Weekly Goals]]

## Daily Goals
1. 

## Journal
- text

## Tomorrow's Priorities
1. text 

## Todo List Log

Note: Hat tip to @I-Dont-Remember in this blog post for pointing out there are separate templating actions occuring.

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