Action
Denote Markdown YAML
Creates a note with the title, tags and frontmatter (in markdown yaml ) of Denote’s file naming scheme. Denote is an excellent Emacs package created by Protesilaos Stavrou.
More details of the Denote package can be found here:
https://protesilaos.com/emacs/denote#h:4a6d92dd-19eb-4fcc-a7b5-05ce04da3a92
Steps
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script
// Get the current draft's title let title = draft.title; // Get the tags of the current draft let tags = draft.tags; // Surround each tag with quotation marks and join them with commas let s = tags.map(tag => `"${tag}"`).join(", "); draft.setTemplateTag("mytag", s); // Convert tags array to a string, joined by commas or any separator you prefer let tagString = tags.join("_"); // Create a new title by appending the tags to the original title let newTitle = `--${title}__${tagString}`; let sluggedTitle = slugify(newTitle); let datedTitle = getDateStamp(); // Set the new title to the draft draft.setTemplateTag("titleWithTags", newTitle); function slugify(text) { return text.toString().toLowerCase() .replace(/\s+/g, '-') // Replace spaces with hyphens .replace(/[^\w\-]+/g, '') // Remove all non-word characters .replace(/\-\-+/g, '-') // Replace multiple hyphens with a single hyphen .replace(/^-+/, '') // Trim leading hyphens .replace(/-+$/, ''); // Trim trailing hyphens } // Function to get current date and time as YYYYMMDDHHMMSS function getDateStamp() { let now = new Date(); let year = now.getFullYear(); let month = String(now.getMonth() + 1).padStart(2, '0'); // Months are 0-indexed let day = String(now.getDate()).padStart(2, '0'); let hours = String(now.getHours()).padStart(2, '0'); let minutes = String(now.getMinutes()).padStart(2, '0'); let seconds = String(now.getSeconds()).padStart(2, '0'); return `${year}${month}${day}T${hours}${minutes}${seconds}`; } let fileName = datedTitle+"--"+sluggedTitle+ ".md"; let fileContent = draft.content; draft.setTemplateTag("filename", fileName);
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file
fileNameTemplate [[filename]]
folderTemplate template --- title: "[[line|1]]" date: [[date]]T[[date|%H:%M:%S%z]] tags: [[[mytag]]] identifier: "[[date|%Y%m%dT%H%M%S]]" --- [[trimmed_body]]
local true
writeType create
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