Periodic Notes, Quick Add and Tasks

[timatlee]

What I’m trying to do

I am trying to make a Quick Add that will add a Task to my Weekly Note in my vault.

I have had success using a macro and a capture function with Quick Add - the macro opens my Weekly Note doc, pauses for a brief moment, then prompts to add the task.

I am looking to understand if there’s a way to do this without losing focus of the document I’m currently working in.

[TheTao]

You should be able to do this. You don’t need a macro and you don’t need to open your weekly note. Simply create a capture. For the filename, you need to specify the full path and name for the weekly note. I do this for my daily note. My filename looks like “Journal/daily/{{DATE:YYYY}}/{{DATE:MM}}/{{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD}}”. Be sure to click “Create file if it doesn’t exist” and specify the template. Then use “Insert after” to specify where in the weekly note you want the note (which header). Do not enable “Open”. Obviously, you need to specify the capture format. I do this all the time with my daily note. Sometimes I get nervous and have to check the daily note to be sure it really got there since there’s no notification . At any rate, you can make it work the way you want.