I have several Shortcuts that help me keep my daily note/journal updated throughout the day. The one that gets used the most is my habit tracker.
Because Obsidian is just a text file, I don’t even use Obsidian mobile for this, it just grabs the contents of the text file, modifies it, then resaves it back to the original location. I keep all the habits in the YAML front matter, and present it on the page in a table using Dataview. I also keep a monthly table on a “Dashboard” page that shows my habits over the course of a few weeks.
Here’s what it does:
- Get today’s note from my “Dailies” folder (you’ll need to change this if you use it)
- Split the text at the “—”
- Grab the second item of the split text (this is everything between the "—"s. It’s a few more lines than just my habits, but this way as the habits I’m tracking change, I won’t need to update the Shortcut)
- Split that by new lines, this puts each line of the YAML as its own object in Shortcuts.
- Choose from list. (By using the actual document to create the list on the fly instead of programming the list in Shortcuts, the options can change as the habits I track change, and I get the added benefit of seeing what I’ve already completed)
- Save that as a variable to use later in text replacement
- Present another list of emoji icons. I rate each habit on a 1-5 scale using colors.
- Replace the text in the file (ex. replace “meditation:” with “meditation:
”) - Save the file back to original location.
I should really write this up on the blog…
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5fc5aa7bb83a42ada5841d91a3aa07e8