Is it possible to add a timestamp when a metadata is changing?

[Ooker]

For example, I have a key with these values: to do, doing, done. Every time I change the value, I want it to it automatically add a metadata with the current date as the value. For example, if I change from to do to doing, then the metadata will be:

time:
 doing: 2022-03-21

If I change from doing to done, it will be:

time:
 doing: 2022-03-21
 done: 2022-03-22

Is it possible?

[kenjibailly]

You can def do this with the MetaEdit API.

I did something similar and explained it in this post, hope this might help you out

What I did is basically add a emoji to my frontmatter habits to finish them off in my daily notes using a button (buttons plugin)

Because I want it clean and automatically with buttons since you can create them anywhere, there’s quite a lot to it.

You can check it out here:

Find and replace only within YAML frontmatter (regex?)

You can use the metaedit plugin. I made a script where it updates the frontmatter and “completes” a habit by adding a “:heavy_check_mark:” emoji. The script takes a completed “true” and “false” argument: it removes this “:heavy_check_mark:” emoji from the frontmatter. I create 2 templater notes so I can tie those to a button from the buttons plugin. Perhaps my code can help you out for your project: Frontmatter in my daily note: --- habits: - uhive:: --- Templater notes Change Metadata …

[Ooker]

Is it possible to have the fields in inline syntax?