Having a fun day fiddling with the Templater plugin for Obsidian.
Here’s the template code I have at the moment, if that’s the sort of thing that interests you. Borrowed heavily from ThoughtAsylum and Red Gregory.
This is the template I invoke to create a new jot file. It prompts me for an optional topic, creates the file, and inserts a link wherever my cursor is.
With syntax highlighting, since inside the <%* ... %>
it’s just JavaScript.
This template sets the content of the new file. If I provided something for a
topic when invoking jot-insert.md
, that will be used as the display title.
Without syntax highlighting. Markdown, YAML, and JavaScript all mixed in --- can Hugo / Chroma even do that?
Got the up::
link there for the Breadcrumbs. That way the jot
links back to whatever day I made the jot, even if it’s a jot for some
unrelated topic. “When?” is as important of a question as “what?” when I’m
trying to track my thoughts.
Looks a bit like Zettelkasten, but the only thing intentionally Zettel about it is the timestamp.
Been focusing on the less outliner-oriented note systems to simplify copy and paste to / from the outside world. But that means a single page can get unwieldy if I’m not careful. Now I can link out for stuff like meeting notes and whatever to keep my daily notes from become 10,000 word walls of text.
Oh and I know I can export from Org Mode to whatever I need for pasting. I may get there. This is an incremental process. Right now I’m dealing with the fact that most of my notes are in one flavor of Markdown or another.