dendronhq
Write functions to update information
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe
I'm in the process of writing down a lot of recipes that I like, and I'm frustrated by the repetitiveness of typing in the tags if the recipe is vegan or not.
I would like for a system to exist that would allow us to write "functions" that would be able to write things in a file.
Do mind that it's a broader problem than just writing recipe.
Describe the solution you'd like
Define a function that will look for links (following rules that we can change, like needing to begin with "xxx.yyy") in a file.
Read files, get information.
Apply a function to the results (like 'add every element a' or 'chains of "or"').
Write the result next to the function name (like it's done for updated and created), when publising overwrite the function name with the result.
Describe alternatives you've considered
We could use a lot of {{variable}} but I don't think we can compare variable and it seems very tedious to do it otherwise.
We can also use a external program to do it but we would have to launch it manually, so meh.
Additional context
When the function look for links, we would need to tell it where to look, because we may not want to look through every link in the file, but only some. In my example, the interesting links are all under the '## Ingredient' title.
This could be used to update information automatically, and so could be useful in different way, like doing stats, update tags, etc.
Thanks @Leoriem-code for the suggestion 🙏 Can this solution be solved alternatively with the help of templates/note traits? i.e. each time you create a note it gets populated with specific headers (eg: ## Ingredients) and tags (#veg)?
Unfortunately no, because while we could add the tags automatically, we would sometimes need to remove them (i.e. if there is meat in the recipe).
While tedious, it could be used for the example I gave, but it is not what I am after.
Moreso if we want to add other tags (i.e. kosher) after creating recipes.
But still, thanks for trying to help.