Track recent files in Obsidian's daily notes

README.md

• Update your notes path in recent.rb
• Save ca.aream.recent.plist to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ca.aream.recent.plist
• Save recent.rb to ~/bin/recent (you may have to create the bin folder and run chmod +x recent to make the script executable
• Run launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ca.aream.recent.plist to start the launchd service
• Check your notes path to see if RECENT.md was created!

If that all worked, install the Templater plugin for Obsidian and create a Daily Note template that includes [[RECENT]] - I've included my template to get you started.

ca.aream.recent.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
    <dict>

        <key>Label</key>
        <string>ca.aream.recent.plist</string>

        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>

        <key>StartInterval</key>
        <integer>60</integer>

        <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
        <string>/tmp/recent.err</string>

        <key>StandardOutPath</key>
	<string>/tmp/recent.out</string>

        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
	    <string>/Users/mike/bin/recent</string>
        </array>
    </dict>
</plist>

daily-note.md

<% tp.date.now("dddd, MMM D, YYYY") %>

[[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", "P-1Y") %>]] | [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]W") %>]]

Recent Notes

<% tp.file.include("[[RECENT]]") %>

Daily Notes

recent.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

notes_path = "#{ENV['HOME']}/Library/Mobile Documents/iCloud~md~obsidian/Documents/Notes/"
recent_filepath = notes_path + 'RECENT.md'

files = Dir.glob("#{notes_path}**").select {|f| File.mtime(f) > (Time.now - (7*24*60*60))}
recent_notes = files.map{|filepath| File.basename(filepath).chomp('.md') unless filepath.match(/RECENT|TODO|WEATHER|_TEMPLATES|_ATTACHMENTS/)}.compact

File.open(recent_filepath, 'w') do |file|
  recent_notes.each do |filename|
    file.write "- [[#{filename}]]\n"
  end
end