Calendar and tasks for daily notes

danbburg · July 24, 2020, 1:08pm

Hi, I liked this idea but wanted a little more customization. In the other similar posts I only saw the generated markdown. So I put together a bash script to generate a calendar view that uses the date format that I specifically use for daily notes (it is customizable). You can also customize the format of the “empty days” in the calendar grid and the table headers among other things.

The bash script can be found here:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/jdbrice/3b7395d7f1ff724a744a26ab9bfd078b

md-cal.sh

startdate=2020-01-01
enddate=2020-12-31

# controls the link format for each day:
# [[ $linkformat | $displayformat ]]
linkformat="%Y-%b-%d-%a"
displayformat="%d"

# marker for empty days in calendar view
emptydays="❌"

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and produces something like this:

I tested it on ubuntu but should work on any linux with bash and gnu date command.

NOTE!! It uses the GNU date command - so it doesnt work out of the box on Mac - but if there is interest i can make a mac version also (or you can install gnu date on mac)

I also plan to make dedicated week / month views that embed the daily notes etc. Let me know if there is interest in that and I will share once it is ready.