IF statements (weekday) in Templater?

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Using the Templater plugin, you can easily get the day of the week from a dynamic execution context, so something like the following would print “Hooray” on days like the day I wrote this.

<%* const dayOfWeek = moment().weekday(); console.log( "m", dayOfWeek) -%>
Humpty, dumpty, some other text
%%before%%
<%* if ( dayOfWeek == 1 ) { -%>
Too early?

<%* } else if ( dayOfWeek == 2 ) { -%>
Hooray
<%* } else { -%>
not so good
<%* } -%>
%%after%%

Some explanations are in order:

  • When using dynamic execution code, <%*, it allows for javascript execution of code
  • The moment().weekday() returns the day of the week as number, which allows us to check on that later on, so store that in dayOfWeek
  • This can be going back and forth between ordinary text, which can be a little confusing, but you’ll get the drift of it
  • Using -%> to end the template blocks, re-assures that the this template block does not add a newline into the created note
  • The %%before%% and %%after%% doesn’t serve any purpose beside helping to see the newlines. Feel free to remove them after you played around a little with either %> or -%> to end the template blocks