Automated Periodic Note Creation

Automated Periodic Note Creation.md

This is a Templater Startup Script for use in Obsidian.

Each time Obsidian is opened, Templater runs the script to see if a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly file exists for the current date. If one exists, it moves on, if not, it creates the file using the appropriate template, in the appropriate place.

<%*
let wk = tp.date.now('GGGG-[W]WW');
let mnth = tp.date.now('MM MMMM');
let qrtr = tp.date.now('Qo [Quarter]');
let yr = tp.date.now('YYYY');
let template = '';

if (!tp.file.exists(wk)) {
  template = tp.file.find_tfile('Periodic Note - Weekly');
  await tp.file.create_new(template, wk);
};

if (!tp.file.exists('[[Personal/Journal/' + yr + '/' + qrtr + '/' + mnth + '/' + mnth + ']]')) {
  template = tp.file.find_tfile('Periodic Note - Monthly');
  await tp.file.create_new(template, yr + '/' + qrtr + '/' + mnth + '/' + mnth);
};

if (!tp.file.exists('[[Personal/Journal/' + yr + '/' + qrtr + '/' + qrtr + ']]')) {
  template = tp.file.find_tfile('Periodic Note - Quarterly');
  await tp.file.create_new(template, yr + '/' + qrtr + '/' + qrtr);
};

if (!tp.file.exists('[[Personal/Journal/' + yr + '/' + yr + ']]')) {
  template = tp.file.find_tfile('Periodic Note - Yearly');
  await tp.file.create_new(template, yr + '/' + yr);
};
%>