Calendar and tasks for daily notes

afv · October 19, 2020, 10:24pm

@danbburg, perfect! Thanks for the script!

I’m using dates with spaces (e.g. linkFormat="%Y-%m-%d (%A)" -> 2020-10-19 (Monday)) so I had to change all instances of $date_cmd +$linkTemplate to have quotes: $date_cmd +"$linkTemplate", or else date thinks there’s more than one argument.

Also, I didn’t like the non-existing notes link to have a blue color (hard to distinguish, despite the existing ones being bold), so I cleared all highlights (hle, hlne, hlt), added a span with a class to both dates:

 if [ -e "$testFile" ]; then # Daily note file exists
        printf "| $hil$hle<span class=\"journal-calendar-date\">[[ %s \| %s ]]</span>$hle$hil " "`$date_cmd +"$linkTemplate" […]
    elif [ "$linkNonExisting" == true ]; then # Daily note file does not exists, but still make a link
        printf "| $hil$hlne<span class=\"journal-calendar-date\">[[ %s \| %s ]]</span>$hlne$hil " "`$date_cmd +"$linkTemplate" […]

and added it to obsidian.css:

.journal-calendar-date a.internal-link.is-unresolved {
    color: white;
}

This way there’s no need to re-run the script to check for existing notes (just run it once per year!) and the style will change automatically.

Result:

Thanks again!

jcperezh · October 28, 2020, 8:31am

https://gist.github.com/jdbrice/3b7395d7f1ff724a744a26ab9bfd078b there is the original code. i just change it a little bit. (mostly for German translation and European ISO format)

hurla64 · November 16, 2021, 3:11pm

I’m just wondering whether the idea of highlighting today’s date in the Calendar was ever developed further. I use the default Calendar that has today’s day in bold, but I would love a more conspicuous appearance like a fully highlighted square.

Owieczka · June 17, 2023, 9:27pm

I have got inspired and created script in obsidian templater for automatic calendar creation in periodic notes.

github.com

owieczka/obsidian-vault/blob/main/Template/CalendarEN.md

| w | M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
<% calendar(tp.file.title,0) %>
<%*
function calendar(title,offset) {
	let day = 01;
	let month = tp.date.now("MM", offset, title, "YYYY-MM");
	let year = tp.date.now("YYYY", offset, title, "YYYY-MM");
	let off = 0;
	for(off=0;off>-7;off--) {
		const dayName = tp.date.now("ddd", off, `${year}-${month}-${day}`, "YYYY-MM-DD");
		if(dayName=="Mon") break;
	}
	let output = [];
	for(let jdx=0;jdx<5;jdx++) {
		let weak = tp.date.now("ww", off, `${year}-${month}-${day}`, "YYYY-MM-DD");
		let link = tp.date.now("YYYY[-W]ww", off, `${year}-${month}-${day}`, "YYYY-MM-DD");
		output.push(`| [${weak}](${link}) `);
		for(let idx=0;idx<7;idx++) { //look over 7 day week
			let day_local = tp.date.now("DD", off+idx, `${year}-${month}-${day}`, "YYYY-MM-DD");

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owieczka/obsidian-vault/blob/main/Template/MonthlyEN.md

---
tag: 🔧
---
# <% monthEN(tp.file.title,0) %> <% tp.date.weekday("YYYY", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM") %>
[[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM", "P-1M", tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM" ) %>| ⇦ <% monthEN(tp.file.title,"P-1M")%> <% tp.date.now("YYYY", "P-1M", tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM" ) %>]] || [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM", "P+1M", tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM" ) %>|<% monthEN(tp.file.title,"P+1M")%> <% tp.date.now("YYYY", "P+1M", tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM" ) %> ⇨]] 

<% tp.file.include("[[CalendarEN]]") %>
## Intentions
---
- 

## Tasks for Month 🗓️
---
- 

## Summary
---
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