Can we use templater to Map new notes automatically?

[maddyboy]

Inside each Folder, I have created a file called “map.md” which acts as an index file for all the files inside that particular Folder.

Can I use Templater to automatically “paste the links” to the files that I would create inside that Folder automatically? I am doing it manually now

I mean something like, Each time I click the map.md note inside that folder, it scans for new files inside that particular folder, then adds those links to map.md ?

Thank you

[anon12638239]

Don’t know about Templater, but as an alternative solution (if needed) dataview queries can do this:

List

```dataview
LIST from "books" 
SORT file.name ASC
```

Table

```dataview
TABLE BookAuthor AS Author
FROM "books"
SORT BookAuthor ASC, BookTitle ASC
```

Angel

[jwl]

You can try the Zoottelkeeper plugin. It creates an index file of each folder and allows you to set the name of the file.

[anon12638239]

The following creates an index for any folder that the index note is in without having to localize the query to the folder’s name:

```dataview
LIST
WHERE contains(file.folder, this.file.folder)
SORT file.name ASC
WHERE file.name != this.file.name
```

The line…

WHERE file.name != this.file.name

…removes the self-referencing title of the index file from the index that is produced. Can be removed, of course.

Credit to this post.

Angel

[maddyboy]

Thank you. This Works but returns Zero Output if there is an emoji in the filename.

[anon12638239]

Welcome.

Emoji in file names and YAML can cause issues, possibly related to OS platforms, emoji pickers, etc. The developer has a number of open issues relating to emoji. See: dataview on GitHub.

Angel

[maddyboy]

Thanks. Yes, but strangely, it started working now .

[anon12638239]

Magic.

Joy.

Angel