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Add support for weekly journaling similar to Foam's feature
Describe your feature request I'd like to be able to create daily notes on a hotkey similar to Foam journal feature https://foambubble.github.io/foam/features/daily-notes.html
Additional context This is my most-used feature in Foam and like to be able to open a notes app with a new weekly app, or open current week's notes. Also it would be helpful to hotkeys such as Alt+D.
I also found having a dedicated note for the day surprisingly useful in Foam, even though Foam isn't quite my perfect note taking app. I liked the feature so much that I reproduced it in nvALT by using a cron job to automatically create the note file and adding a keyword in Alfred to launch nvALT with the day's date as the search string. Presumably one could do something similar with FSNotes, although having them built-in would of course be easier.
One thing that would make this easier to automate with external tools would be if there was a URL scheme to "find a note, or create it with text if it doesn't exist." Then I could access my daily (or weekly) note through Alfred with something like this:
fsnotes://find-or-create/?title=2022-04-21&txt='April%2021%2C%202022%0A-%20%5B%5D%20Review%20PRs%0A'
I would also really like this, I miss the simple journalling functionality in Obsidian. For me all that would be desired is:
- Set a folder for journals to be stored in.
- Have a hotkey (cmd-J) which creates a new file with today's date
- Have a hotkey (cmd-opt left/right arrow) which allows to sequentially move through existing journal files
Thanks again for the great app!
One thing that would make this easier to automate with external tools would be if there was a URL scheme to "find a note, or create it with text if it doesn't exist." Then I could access my daily (or weekly) note through Alfred with something like this:
fsnotes://find-or-create/?title=2022-04-21&txt='April%2021%2C%202022%0A-%20%5B%5D%20Review%20PRs%0A'
We already have a URL scheme: https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/wiki/URL-scheme
but I will add your find-or-create as a feature request #1467
I would also really like this,
If you use something like Alfred you could set this up quite easily.
There would be a trigger (keyword or hotkey) that would create a new note with the year and week.
I've added the following to Alfred Workflow:
- create new note with title containing year and week number, heading of the same
- fsj keyword
- Cmd+Alt+J hotkey
Please see https://alfred.app/workflows/gingerbeardman/fsnotes/
I've also added the request to specify a folder: #1468
The app already has shortcuts for moving up and down the notes list, but it would require per-folder sort options to be able to navigate them in order (to avoid all your notes being sorted alphabetically) #1469
Haven't used Alfred in ages, maybe a good reason to dust it off. Thanks!
One down: per-folder sort.