I’m just trying out the ‘Daily note’ plugin and I think it is annoying that I have to type today’s date all the time when I want to link to today. I’d love to have a shortcut (for me it probably would be Ctrl+D) that inserts the date.
The date should probably not be linked unless the shortcut is part of the Daily notes plugin.
You do have a template set for your Daily Notes, right?
You can set all kinds of fields to be populated in that template and automatically inserted when you click “create daily note,” including whatever date format you like.
I actually have a specific template which I’ve created to be inserted in already created notes which just creates a header with a date and time so that if I need to insert something on the fly, it’s extremely easy.
(All that said, I would love to have an integrated date-picker for inserting dates in the future/past. I suspect will be able to do that pretty easily with the plug-in architecture which is coming down the pipe.)
FWIW: I use multiple date & time formats in multiple programs. Since I was dealing with this issue in 3-4 programs for years, I just created 1 AutoHotKey program for all the assorted times I use Ctl+Shft+D (2020-09-27) -Alt+Shft+D (Sunday, September 27, 2020) - Ctl+$Numpad0 (22:12 PM) etc.
Took me 15 minutes to learn enough AHK to do it. AHK can actually create just about any “new” feature I want in Obsidian… If I cared to understand it better and make the macro. I suspect AHK is only one of many ways to do this universally.
I’m planning on adding this (or a version of this) to the natural language dates plugin: three shortcuts to add the current date, current time, and current date+time. I already have something working and I’m just wondering about the format… Are all those meant to be links? or is the preference to just insert text?
Later on, I plan to add a modal to take any date in natural language (sorry, no date picker) but that might take me a little longer.
To note… right now, all date-related plugins have their own separate settings (so it’s up to the user to keep them consistent). I haven’t checked if there’s a way to access the daily note settings (although I assume it’s possible), just wondering if there’s a scenario where you’d want dates formatted differently than in the daily plugin? (e.g. for the modal)
Trying out the plugin, but I agree this would be nice to see as part of the core package (also for consistent date/time/tz handling - that stuff can get a little wonky)