Create a missing daily note later, but correctly templated

[Norbert]

In some of my notes I wrote informal log entries which link to daily notes in my usual format YYYY-MM-DD . Unfortunately I forgot to create the daily notes itself ;-(.

This happened more than once. I would like to create the missing daily notes after the fact but want the complete frontmatter analog to the daily notes which I create punctually.

For ‘normal’ daily notes I have a templater script which uses the current date for the note title, moves it to the right place and sets some frontmatter properties like date and archived .

When I click on the links to the missing daily notes an empty note with the correct name is created in the standard place for new notes.

I look for a templater script which takes this newly created file, moves it to Journal/ and sets the date property in frontmatter to the value of the title.

Unfortunately my templater knowledge sesems to be insufficient.

I looked in the templater documentation, the forum and the plugins to no avail.

[Zachatoo]

If you setup file regex templates in Templater settings, you could have a regex for /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\.md/ (or something like that) and have the template be your daily note template. Then when you click on a link to a non-existing note, the file regex template should pick it up and apply your daily note template.

[jmiller]

In case someone is looking for this with ‘daily note’ in mind, like me. As in: core plugin daily notes with core plugin templates and community plugin calendar:

You can still use the solution above with the community plugin templater, but it is a completely isolated setup from your existing daily notes setup (in a good way, I guess, as it does not “interfere” with creating daily notes from the calendar or core plugin as usual).

That means for clicking missing date links:
You cannot use your existing daily note template and need to add a command to move the note to your daily note structure.

Regex: ^your-default-note-folder\/\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}\.md$
Slightly adjusted to make sure this triggers for date notes created in the default note folder (and only there), i.e. from clicking a missing date link.

New template for daily note from templater (example):

---
uuid: "<% tp.date.now("YYYYMMDDHHmmss", 0, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>"
title: "<% moment(tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD").format("YYYY-MM-DD (ddd)") %>"
more: "use the same properties"
properties: "as in your 'default' daily note template"
---
<%* await tp.file.move("/your-daily-notes-folder/" + moment(tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD").format("YYYY") + "/" + moment(tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD").format("MM") + "/" + tp.file.title) %>

After setting some properties, this moves the new note from /your-default-note-folder/YYYY-MM-DD (see regex) to your-daily-notes-folder/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD. Adjust to your needs.