Create weekly notes with the dates for the start and end in the title

[HyperEpsilon]

So I know this isn't part of the usual formatting syntax, but would it be at all possible to include the start and end days of a week in the note title? It's hard for me to parse exactly which weeks correspond to which days, so having the days really helps.

I'm currently doing a hacky method using the default daily note plugin and templater where it calculates the current weekly note and navigates there, but I would like something more properly integrated.

Examples of notes in my vault:

• 2022-W53 (Dec 25 - Dec 31)
• 2023-W04 (Jan 22 - Jan 28)

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For reference, this is the current hacky approach I'm using

Templater code at the top of my weekly notes

<%*
  let title = tp.file.title
  if (title.startsWith("Untitled")) {
    // Title format: "YYYY-[W]ww + (MMM {sun_date} - MMM {sat_date})"
    week = tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]ww")
    wk_start = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", 0)
    wk_end = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", 6)
    title = `${week} (${wk_start} - ${wk_end})`
    console.log(title);
    await tp.file.rename(`${title}`);
  }

  // Set up the previous and next week variables
  pweek = tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]ww", -7)
  pwk_start = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", -7)
  pwk_end = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", -1)
  pwk_title = `${pweek} (${pwk_start} - ${pwk_end})`

  nweek = tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]ww", +7)
  nwk_start = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", +7)
  nwk_end = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", +13)
  nwk_title = `${nweek} (${nwk_start} - ${nwk_end})`

  // This will output the renamed title with heading level 1
  // and also use up the blank line this execution template occupies
  tR += "# " + `${title}`
-%>

Templater code at the top of my weekly note opening file

<%*

async function test() {
	// Title format: "YYYY-[W]ww + (MMM {sun_date} - MMM {sat_date})"
	week = tp.date.now("GGGG-[W]ww")
    wk_start = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", 0)
    wk_end = tp.date.weekday("MMM DD", 6)
    title = `${week} (${wk_start} - ${wk_end})`

	//console.log(title)

	var fldr = "1. Journal/Weekly Notes/";
	var year = tp.date.now("GGGG");
	var path = fldr + year + "/" + title + ".md"
	//console.log(path)
	
	var exists = await tp.file.exists(path)
	//console.log(exists)
	
	if (!exists) {
		console.log("file doesn't exists")
		
		// console.log("Creating file "+title+"'at " +fldr+year+'/');
		// This does throw an error since the folder will (usually) be created,
		// but it shouldn't matter. Can't get try
		try {
			this.app.vault.createFolder(fldr+year);
		} catch(err) { console.log(err)}
		
		this.app.vault.create(fldr+year+'/Untitled.md', "");
		await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
	}
  
	let weeklyNote =  tp.file.find_tfile(title);
	//let temp_nav = tp.file.find_tfile("zz_meta/nav_temp/99989");

	var opt = app['internalPlugins']['plugins']['daily-notes']['instance']['options']['folder'] 
	var format = app['internalPlugins']['plugins']['daily-notes']['instance']['options']['format']

	var temp_nav_2 =  tp.file.find_tfile( opt + '/' + format );

	// console.log(temp_nav_2);
 
	app.workspace.activeLeaf.openFile( weeklyNote );
  
	await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 2000));
  
	this.app.vault.delete( temp_nav_2 );
}

test();

%>

[brandondrew]

It would be very useful if template tags worked for the filename format field.

For example supporting syntax like {{friday:DD}} seems to be the missing piece that would allow me to achieve what I want, which is something like this:

2023 → Week 24, June 18-23

(Since this is in a vault used only for work, I want dates from Monday to Friday.)

[brandondrew]

This is valuable because I am aware of dates but I have no idea what week number corresponds to which dates off the top of my head. I want the week number to make things sort correctly, but I want the dates to make the title actually meaningful to me.