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That’s odd. Would you file an issue for it, so we can figure it out? :slight_smile:

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Done! Thanks!

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i am looking for a script that fetches a metadata from the current activefile for me. can someone pls help me with that?

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Is there a way to “prepend” the current note name to the newly created note? So if I’m in a note named “Test_Note_Parent” and I select some text in that note… Say I select the word “Child” and type in the doubles [[]] brackets to create a new note. When I click to add the note, it will create the note with the name as “Test_Note_Parent:Chi­ld” Basically creating a new note with the selected text as the Note name, but Prepending or prefixing the current note name to the beginning of the newly created note?

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@Christian This app is fantastic! Thank you for developing this! I need to log in some info about my pet birds every day and Quickadd can be super useful with that…
I also have a small question to ask: when I try to log in some fields (inserting values after three lines) with a macro,

Diet: 
Supplement: 
Daily Log:

The result is always like:

Diet: 
value
Supplement: 
value
Daily Log: 
value

Is there a way to format it without the line breaks?

Diet: value
Supplement: value
Daily Log: value

Thanks again for this wonderful plugin!

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How to add in one note only?

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@andreirs did you find the snippets for the outline-function, or are you using your own WF?

I would be really interested in the outline-function as Eleanor showed.
Could one just point me in that direction?

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I’m not sure I understand your question. I linked in my previous post the scripts I’m using. Or are you referring to the outliner plugin?

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Hi everyone,

Question here, is it possible to search for files and use their names as input? I’m trying to quick add tasks to projects (I have heaps of them, each with a different name) and it would be great to have this option while having the flexibility.

My idea was something like this:

1 - Open QuickAdd “Create Task”
2 - Search for the file/project I want to add the task
3 - Input task description
4 - Close QuickAdd

Any ideas or comments if this is possible to implement? I tried to use the “Quick Switcher” command as part of the workflow but QuickAdd jumps to the next step before I’ve selected the file I want to add the ask.

Thanks!

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Hey! Just saw your comment on my video. I’ll paste my response here for anyone else with similar questions:

That sounds like a smart feature, but doesn’t exist yet from what I know of. I suppose it wouldn’t be impossible with some scripting, though - either in QuickAdd or Templater :slight_smile:

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Hey! Could you show me the macro in question? I put

Diet: {{VALUE:DIET}}
Supplement: {{VALUE:SUPP}}
Daily Log: {{VALUE:LOG}}

in a template and it worked fine. I also put it in a capture, and it worked fine. :slight_smile:

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Do you have anything in the frontmatter or filename that indicates that a given file denotes a project? If so, I think it would be very possible with a script - and it would always be updated to include all projects, including new ones. :slight_smile:

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Hey @Christian ,

Thanks for your reply. My script knowledge is limited but I’m keen to make it happen.

Coming back to your question, yes, all files have a frontmatter property called “Type” where I can identify them as Project, Notes, Archive, etc.

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i was looking at metaedit api to use it in quickadd:

update(propertyName: string, propertyValue: string, file: TFile | string)
Updates a property with the given name to the given value in the given file.

If the file is a string, it should be the file path. Otherwise, a TFile is fine.

This is an asynchronous function, so you should await it.

it say the update function value type is string, i have a counter in yaml that i want to go up by one number in the current active file. what should i do?

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That makes it a bit easier. You’d be able to fetch all files where the type is project.
Something like this (probably not a very efficient way to do it):

app.metadataCache.getCachedFiles()
    .map(file => app.metadataCache.getFileCache(app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(file)))
.filter(meta => meta?.frontmatter?.type === "Project")
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Something like this :slight_smile:

const currentFile = app.workspace.getActiveFile();
if (!currentFile) return;

const cfMeta = app.metadataCache.getFileCache(currentFile);
const counter = parseInt(cfMeta.frontmatter.count);

app.plugins.plugins["metaedit"].api.update("count", counter + 1, currentFile);
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thank you so much, i got he desired results for the counter, but couldn’t pass it to update the matadata because i couldn’t figure out that yaml key needs to be in “”. it is a bit confusing in the documentaion.

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Can you use the suggester, but be able to choose more than one option? How would I do that? I tried using this, {{VALUE: but could not seem to make it work. I want to be able to have options for how I slept like was up late, and fell asleep quickly or had a hard time sleeping.

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Something like {{VALUE:Up late,Fast asleep,Poor sleep}}?

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I don’t think I explained what I am tying to do clearly. So, today I want to be able to say that I was Up late and Fell asleep quickly, so I want to use two of the suggested responses. Is that possible?