Add option to create new note and automatically link it in daily note

[sundarvisweswaran]

Current Behavior:

Currently, when using Quick Add to clip content, users have three options:
Add to Daily note
Add to Existing Note
Create new note

Desired Behavior:
Add a fourth option: 4. Create new note and add link in daily note

This new option would:

Create a new note with the clipped content
Automatically add a link to this newly created note in the current daily note

Use Case:
This feature would streamline the workflow for users who want to create separate notes for clipped content and maintain a record of when they clipped that content in their daily notes through backlinks. It combines the benefits of creating a new note with the organizational advantage of linking it to a daily note.

[writtenfool]

I did this to the template in the extension by adding a property called daily_note_date with the value [[{{date|date:YYYY-MM-DD}}]]. It automagically shows up in the linked mentions at the bottom of my daily note.

[haykkh]

I wrote a templater script to take some content and add it to today’s daily:

// clipToDailyNote.js

/**
  * Finds the daily note for today
  * @param {import("obsidian").TFile} tp - The templater object
  * @returns {Promise<import("obsidian").TFile>} - The daily note for today
  */
const findTodaysFile = async (tp) => {
  const dateString = tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD ddd");
  const fileName = `journals/days/${dateString}.md`;
  const fileExists = await tp.file.exists(fileName);

  if (fileExists) {
    return tp.file.find_tfile(fileName);
  }
};

/**
 * Adds content to a tfile
 * @param {TFile} file - The tfile to add content to
 * @param {string} content - The content to add to the tfile
 */
const addContentToTFile = async (file, content) => {
  file.vault.append(file, content);
};

/**
 * Adds content to the daily note for today
 * @param {import("obsidian").TFile} tp - The templater object
 * @param {string} content - The content to add to the daily note
 */
const clipToDailyNote = async (tp, content) => {
  const tFile = await findTodaysFile(tp);
  if (tFile) {
    addContentToTFile(tFile, content);
  }
};

module.exports = clipToDailyNote;

Setting up Templater in obsidian settings:

• Enable Trigger Templater on new file creation
• Set up User script functions
  • You should be able to see your exported clipToDailyNote function above under Detected N User Script(s)

Then use it in your web-clipper template’s Note content:

// clips into your daily:
// - **15:31** [[Cool article on the web]]

<%*
await tp.user.clipToDailyNote(tp, "\n- **" + tp.date.now("HH:mm") + "** [[" + tp.file.title + "]]")
_%>

{{content}}