Action

combine drafts from workspace

Posted by @FlohGro, Last update about 2 years ago

created by @FlohGro / more on my Blog

combine drafts from workspace

this action combines drafts from a workspace into a single draft.
This action was inspired by this post in the Drafts Forum.

The resulting draft will contain the content of all drafts in a bullet list with the creation time as a prefix:

# Drafts from 2022-03-15

- 08:00: some content of a draft
- 08:30: maybe some other draft which was dictated
- 09:01: and another draft

[Configuration]

  • edit the script step of this action and change the variable workspaceName to the name of the workspace you want to use this action with
  • if you want change the variable draftTitle to change the title of the resulting draft

[Usage]

The use case in the forums post was to combine all drafts from a workspace e.g. today into a single draft.


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Steps

  • script

    // combine drafts from workspace
    
    const workspaceName = "Today"
    
    const draftTitle = "# Drafts from " + draft.processTemplate("[[date]]") 
    
    // find workspace 
    let workspace = Workspace.find(workspaceName);
    // query the workspace in this example the "all" tab for all drafts
    let draftsToProcess = workspace.query("all");
    // now all the drafts from that workspace are in the array of drafts: draftsToProcess
    
    // create a new Draft:
    let destinationDraft = new Draft();
    destinationDraft.content = draftTitle + "\n\n"
    
    for (curDraft of draftsToProcess) {
        let creationDateStr = createTimestampFromDate(curDraft.createdAt)
        let lineStr = "- " + creationDateStr + ": " + curDraft.content
        destinationDraft.content = destinationDraft.content + "\n" + lineStr
    }
    
    destinationDraft.update();
    
    
    
    function createTimestampFromDate(date) {
        let hours = date.getHours()
        let hoursStr = ""
        if (hours < 10) {
            hoursStr = "0" + hours
        } else {
            hoursStr = hours
        }
    
        let minutesStr = ""
        let minutes = date.getMinutes()
    
        if (minutes < 10) {
            minutesStr = "0" + minutes
        } else {
            minutesStr = minutes
        }
        let returnstr = hoursStr + ":" + minutesStr
        return returnstr
    }

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