Use case or problem
I want to create a shortcut that allows me to quickly create a new unique note with the input.
Proposed solution
This would work exactly the same as the new actions available for capturing to today’s Daily Note, except for a new Unique Note instead.
Current workaround (optional)
The only way to do this currently is to use the 3rd party Actions for Obsidian app, which requires that I manually create a file and hence requires duplicating logic in Shortcuts that should be sourced from Obsidian itself (e.g. file naming format)
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It’s also possible with just plan Shortcuts (tho similarly, you’d be recreating logic that exists in Obsidian).
I’m not seeing how I’d achieve this with shortcuts, other than (in part) using the Save File action, and saving it to my Obsidian vault directory. Is that what you had in mind?
This would be a partial solution, as I have the Unique Note plugin set up to apply a specific template upon creation.
Yes. That’s one of the benefits of Obsidian saving notes as text files — you can work with them directly. (The template stuff could be done in Shortcuts too, but of course, again at the cost of duplicated effort.)
Thanks for the reply, and appreciate you highlighting another solution, but this is a feature request for something that I believe should be a native feature, without the need for plugins
