An Alfred workflow that opens and appends a breadcrumb and header to Obsidian's Daily Note.
Supports Alfred 4 on macOS 10.7+ on Obsidian 0.8.15 and 0.9.1.
- Set a hotkey or keyword
- Checks to see if there is already a breadcrumb in the file. If there is not, it will append the breadcrumb and header to the note.
- Opens the Obsidian app.
This workflow does the following:
- Checks to see if you have a breadcrumb, if not;
- Appends a breadcrumb and "h2 date" to the top of the daily note in the follow format:
[[YYYY-MM-DD-1day]] | [[YYYY-MM-DD+1day]] > ## h2 Day of week, MM DD YYYY
- opens the Obsidian app.
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Goto Obsidian's settings under 'Plugins', enable 'Daily Notes'.
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Download the Extension.
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Install the extension.
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Navigate to the Workflow area on Alfred and select Obsidian Daily.
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Double click on 'Hotkey' and setup your hotkey if you wish to use hotkeys.
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Double click on 'keyword' to configure your keyword.
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Double click on 'Run Script' to configure the script.
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In the script editor, change Step 1 to your vault name.
vault="change this value to your vault name"
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In the script editor, change Step 2 to where your vault is located. (You can find this information by clicking on 'Open another vault' and looking at the left column under your vault name.)
- If your vault is located in "Users//Documents/" then the default location is below. $HOME represents the home directory, in this case "/Users//"
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"loc=$HOME"/Documents"to your vault directory. (Don't add a forwardslash at the end)
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Make sure Obsidian's settings > Plugins > Daily note, the date format is default at "YYYY-MM-DD".
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Run Alfred Workflow