What I’m trying to do
I’m trying to create a template to write a recipe where each ingredient has a checkbox at the beginning. If that checkbox is checked then that item gets copied to a grocery list with a link back to the recipe that it came from.
Example:
Ingredients:
1 Cup FlouR
2 Cups Sugar
Grocery list:
2 Cups Sugar from “Recipe Name”
I looked into Templator. It looks possible with enough efffort but very tricky to accomplish/maintain.
Yes it is possible with the Templater plugin, but as you said it will require some effort.
Alternatively, you could use the Bases plugin, which I think would be easier.
For the grocery list you could use an embedded search for completed tasks and however you identify recipes. For example if your recipes are all in a folder named “Recipes”:
~~~query
path:"recipes/" todo-done:/./
~~~
The /./ is a regular expression matching any character (so it will show all completed tasks).
If you don’t like how embedded searches look, you can change their visual style with a CSS snippet like Smoother looking embedded search (CSS snippet).
If you want the search to become actual Markdown text in the note, you can use the Text Expand community plugin.
Thanks for the tips! I’ll start here and see how far I get.
This might help