A nushell script to create a daily markdown note in a set directory. The full directory structure may not exist before running.

daily.nu

#!/usr/bin/env nu

# Set this to the root of your notes.
# Something like: "/Users/username/notes"
let note_dir = ""
let daily_dir = "journal/daily"

let current_year = (date now | format date "%Y")
let month_dir = (date now | format date "%m-%B")
let filename = (date now | format date "%Y-%m-%d.md")

let path = [$note_dir, $daily_dir, $current_year, $month_dir] | str join "/"
let absolute_file = [$path, $filename] | str join "/" 

# This assures file creation works if the directory is incomplete.
# That would commonly happen at the beginning of years and each month.
mkdir $path

# TODO: Replace `touch` with template driven file creation
if not ($absolute_file | path exists) { 
  touch $absolute_file
}

nvim $absolute_file