SlRvb's Journaling Setup

[cestvrai]

I also just downloaded the ITS theme. First impression: WOW.

[kenanmike]

@SlRvb

<%* if (tp.file.title.match(/.*-WL-A/)) { -%>
<% tp.file.include("[[Arm Day Template]]") %>
<%* } else if (tp.file.title.match(/.*-WL-T/)) { -%>
<% tp.file.include("[[Torso Day Template]]") %>
<%* } else if (tp.file.title.match(/.*-WL-L/)) { -%>
<% tp.file.include("[[Lower Body Day Template]]") %>
<%* } else if (tp.file.title.match(/.*-WL-W/)) { -%>
<% tp.file.include("[[Workout Log Template]]") %>
<%* } else {} %>

This is a superb set up!
I’d like to know a little bit more about this quoted section.
Does the coding /.-WL-W/ for example mean that your file name must be exactly .-WL-W? Or is the period . and slash / used in a Regex way?
And what is the - doing before %> on the if lines?

[SlRvb]

@SlRvb

/.*-WL-W/

This part in the template is regex // that is basically saying: .* look through anything until you find -WL-W in the title.

So often times my files have the day in ISO 8601 format at the start and .* is the easiest way to just search through anything, because I didn’t want to have to specify the formatting for the if to look through since it isn’t important to me.

So the file could be titled: !@#$%^&asdf-WL-W asdfghjkl. The template would see -WL-W and then place the correct template in the file.

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The -%> is telling templater to remove any whitespaces/new lines so that it appears as 1 line with no with empty lines where the if statement was. Without it I would end up with a space or new line at the top of my newly created file.

[kenanmike]

Yes, makes sense now! Thanks for explaining, and esp about that nifty trick -%>
I wasn’t aware of that & will certainly be using that in future! Also spurred me to refresh myself on Regex

[trickstur]

What’s the chance you could make this a downloadable example vault so we can play with it? I’m still a bit confused on things.

[SlRvb]

I think I can make a small zip of a vault so people can test the setup. I’ll update the post with the files and reply with an update about it so people are notified when it’s ready .

[trickstur]

That would be highly appreciated. Thanks!

[coffeemunster]

A zip of a small vault would be amazing! I have been closely examining your Journaling and MediaDB to try and learn new capabilities and frameworks of Obsidian to implement into my own. Your use of Obsidian and Plugins is on another level. Thank you for sharing and being so detailed in your vault explanations!

[cyrille_bzt]

Wow, this solution looks pretty cool but I don’t see how to implement it.
Where do the files go or how they are organized, in which directory.
I looked on the forum, but I did not understand or find.
If you can make a tutorial or a zip files to help for the understanding

[trickstur]

That’s kind of where I’m at. I was working on adding the templates and such, but I was thinking it would be easier to understand with a vault that’s already set up with correct date formats, etc.

[SlRvb]

They’re all put into the folder with the same name as the type of journal entry it is. All the folders are listed in the Folder Setup section.

So a regular day Journal entry goes in the 1 Journal folder, while a Dream Journal entry goes into the 2 Dream Journal folder.

They’re put there via the QuickAdd plugin that automatically puts the type in the correct folder. The settings for that are listed in the QuickAdd Plugin section.

[SlRvb]

Journal Vault Zip File

I’ve created an example vault for the Journal Setup that you can download and play around with the setup yourself. You can download it here:
SlRvb’s Journal Setup Zip

[gabecolors]

Thank you so much for sharing and documenting so well. Do you have consistent shortcut keys you use all the time? Hotkey to open a template?Formatting hotkeys? Date/time stamp hotkeys? I see you have so much pre-organized, like the collection of templates and it sounds like you manually select which one to use. I’m so impressed and curious to learn more about your active process.

[SlRvb]

The only real hotkey I use is alt + j which is to open up the QuickAdd menu to select which template/journal I want to use. My Templater templates automatically input all the time and stuff once the note is created.

[ArielSilva]

Awesome setup!
I had one doubt, though. What are those "dv"s I see around?
For example: dv= this.Start

[SlRvb]

It’s just how I setup the syntax for dataview’s inline queries in the dataview settings. So dv= this.Start is equivalent to = this.Start

I changed it because I have coding notes, so with dv= I can avoid accidentally triggering dataview with just this: `=`

[hdiana]

Thank you very much for your work and explanations!
The only thing what is not working is Quickadd and Templater. I believe it is a bug with Templater (I did some research, after x-times trying) [BUG] conflict with templater · Issue #119 · chhoumann/quickadd · GitHub
Have you heard this issue maby also from other users? I am not at all a programmer or anything like that. (pianoteacher) but I love experimenting and new ideas. Maybe I am doing something wrong…
many greetings from Germany

[SlRvb]

I don’t really have any issue with templater and quickadd together. All of my templates load up when using quickadd in the way I expect them to, so unfortunately I’m not sure what could be going wrong there for those where it doesn’t work.

Have you tried the demo vault? I’m curious if that issue occurs there as well for you.

[hdiana]

Yes. Is the demo vault the link from the dropbox? I found this link under the video description Obsidian Community Talks - managing multiple journals.
I downloaded it several times…but everytime when I used quickadd, this message appears

[SlRvb]

Hmmm, weird. It’s also a little strange that the folder for the vault also appears in the file explorer, I don’t think it should . It should only really show 00 Technical and 10 BuJo and have the whole color scheme loaded in once safemode is off. If that isn’t the cause of the issues, I’m unfortunately at a loss for why it doesn’t work for you .