Not even sure if possible - text field w/ button that adds the content entered into a note?

[n00bzorz89]

What I’m trying to do

I like having my main Daily and Weekly nots look almost like a website lol, they have banners multiple columns etc. and due to this the layout in edit mode isn’t always the most convenient to navigate lol but i usually don’t mind or find a work around to get the areas i enter my daily/weekly notes to be close to the top of the file.

I had a thought that i would love actually to have a small text box (or heck even a pop up text area?) that i could enter my notes for my daily prompts.

Things I have tried

Since i have mostly only knowledge in HTML and a bit og java/javascript ATM this is where i started lol

<h3>access a TEXTAREA element</h3>
<textarea id="myTextarea"></textarea>
<p>Click the button to get the content of the text area.</p>
<button type="button" onclick="myFunction()">Try it</button>
<p id="demo"></p>

and sadly this is as far as i got because i gave up, thinking it wouldn’t be possible. but lately i have seen some people using the buttons plugin and some others, to edit their metadata/YAML and it got me thinking of this again wondering if it is possible. it gave me hope that someone may know where to point me to get this done lol. example of the notes in question and the mess that they are in edit mode.

(also thanks again for the help last timewith my spending/income tracker

My other notes are NOT like this lol which is why i don’t really mind it, but if i could have a way to not have to go into edit mode for my daily/weekly notes…that would be great Either a text box or pop up prompt where i can type would both work really. So is this possible? can someone point me in the right direction?

[ladyMonolid]

If I was looking to do what you are trying to do, I would use a combination of the Buttons and QuickAdd plugins. I would create a button on the daily note template that would trigger a QuickAdd “capture” command.

This should allow you to click the button, enter text into a popup and have the text appear in your daily note.

I haven’t done it myself; so far I’ve only used the QuickAdd “template” choice and haven’t played with the “capture” choice. But having a peek at the capture settings, you should be able to specify where the captured text gets inserted into the note, into which note, etc.

[geoffb]

I agree with @ladyMonolid. I use QuickAdd to do this exact thing—opening a modal where I can add something to my daily note (under the H2 Log) and then move on. The following is a QuickAdd template, which can even have a hot key assigned.

[n00bzorz89]

Oh man this could be it! im at work ATM so i cant test right now…but when i get home…>_<