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Use case or problem
Quickadd allows us to log notes into a periodic/daily note but to use it you have to have Obsidian open. Wouldn’t it be convenient to activate an apple shortcut and dictate a short note about something that happened that shows up in your note - you can have a lot of quick insights or activity highlights throughout the day rather than waiting for the opportunity to type your notes later in the day, when your recollection is not fresh or you are too tired to record activities.
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Obsidian already has a Shortcuts shortcut to add to a daily note: Obsidian for iOS and iPadOS - Obsidian Help. To use dictation you can either press the microphone button on the keyboard or make a shortcut that uses Obsidian’s shortcut as an action after a “Dictate text” action. Here’s a more complicated shortcut that I use: Shortcuts (if you use it you’ll need to remove or change the vault name). For better accuracy it uses “Record audio” + “Transcribe” instead of “Dictate text”. And if the recording is very short it offers an input to type text instead, so I can tap the recording screen to dismiss it if I’d rather type.
@CawlinTeffid I love your shortcut ! Thanks.
Do you think there’s a a way to make it work even if the Daily note does not yet exist?
That would require it to check if the note exist, than create it, so I don’t know if that’s too complicated for Shortcut …
Do you think there’s a a way to make it work even if the Daily note does not yet exist?
That’s what the existing “Open today’s daily note” command in the command palette, and sidebar already does. It opens a note named after today’s date, and if it doesn’t exist it creates it. By default the note is created at the top level, but in settings you can change it to use a folder like ‘Daily/’.
We’re talking about the Apple Shortcuts action, not the command. The action fails when the note doesn’t exist yet. I believe there is a bug report about it.