selfire1/obsidian-monthnotes.sh

## obsidian-monthnotes.sh
#!/bin/bash

# Author: Joschua
# Gist script link: https://gist.github.com/selfire1/f9ddddedc19a59eb6b3103ab51dec11d
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# This script is adapted from the following script:
# Author of the original script: Daniel Brandenburg
# Original script link: https://gist.github.com/jdbrice/3b7395d7f1ff724a744a26ab9bfd078b


######################################################################
# Set the year to be created for here:
year=2022


monthCount=1
while [ $monthCount -le 12 ]
do

if (( $monthCount < 10 )); then
    month="0${monthCount}"
    else
    month="${monthCount}"
fi

# use `date` on linus, for OSX set this to `gdate` you may need to install it (brew install coreutils)
date_cmd="gdate"

# OPTIONS
lastDay=$(cal $(${date_cmd} +"${monthCount} ${year}") | awk 'NF {DAYS = $NF}; END {print DAYS}')
# Date range to generate
startDate=${year}-${month}-01
endDate=${year}-${month}-${lastDay}

monthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${startDate}")

#relative or full path to output file
outputFile="${year}-${month}-${monthName}.md"

# navigation
if test $monthCount -eq 1; then
    # January Note
    ((prevMonthNo=12))
    ((nextMonthNo=2))
    nextMonthPad="02"
    prevMonthName="December"
    nextMonthName="February"
    ((prevYear=$year-1))
    navigation="[[${prevYear}-${prevMonthNo}-${prevMonthName}|← ${prevMonthName}]] | [[${year}-${nextMonthPad}-${nextMonthName}|${nextMonthName} →]]"
    elif test $monthCount -eq 12; then
    # December Notes
    ((prevMonthNo=11))
    ((nextMonthNo=1))
    nextMonthNoPad="01"
    prevMonthName="November"
    nextMonthName="January"
    ((nextYear=$year+1))
    navigation="[[${year}-${prevMonthNo}-${prevMonthName}|← ${prevMonthName}]] | [[${nextYear}-${nextMonthNoPad}-${nextMonthName}|${nextMonthName} →]]"

    else
    # All other months
    ((prevMonthNo=$monthCount-1))
    ((nextMonthNo=$monthCount+1))

    if (( $prevMonthNo < 10 )); then
    prevMonthPad="0${prevMonthNo}"
    else
    prevMonthPad="${prevMonthNo}"
    fi

    if (( $nextMonthNo < 10 )); then
    nextMonthPad="0${nextMonthNo}"
    else
    nextMonthPad="${nextMonthNo}"
    fi

    prevMonthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${year}-${prevMonthNo}-01")
    nextMonthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${year}-${nextMonthNo}-01")
    navigation="[[${year}-${prevMonthPad}-${prevMonthName}|← ${prevMonthName}]] | [[${year}-${nextMonthPad}-${nextMonthName}|${nextMonthName} →]]"
fi

# controls the link format for each day:
# [[ $linkFormat | $displayFormat ]]
# Note: you can include `XX` immediately after the day number to get the ordinal suffix
linkFormat="%Y-%m-%d"
displayFormat="%e"

# marker for empty days in calendar view
emptydays="--"

monthHeadingLvl="# " # the heading used for the months
monthHeadingFormat="%B, %Y"

# table headers
hWeek="Week"
hMon="Mon"
hTue="Tue"
hWed="Wed"
hThu="Thu"
hFri="Fri"
hSat="Sat"
hSun="Sun"

#####################################
# should we check for file existance?
# if false the following options wont work
# checking all the files is a little slow,
# so you can turn it off if you want
checkFileExists=false

#no trailing slash please
dailyNotePath="~/Dropbox/Vault/Journals"

# Should non-existing notes get linked?
linkNonExisting=true

#highlight the link for (non)existing
# link is wrapped with this e.g. ** [[ link | display ]] **
hle="" #exsting or used for all if checkFileExists=false
hlne="" # not existing
hlt="==" #highlight for today's date (in addition to others)

frontmatter="---
alias: ${monthName} ${year}
tags: monthlyjournals
---
up:: [[${year}]]"


# END OPTIONS
######################################################################

# Count the number of daily notes that you have
# TODO:
# - breakdown by day / week / month
# - consider metrics on files themselves (word count etc.)
countExistingNotes=0
countNonExistingNotes=0

# initialize the output file
echo "${frontmatter}" > "$outputFile"
curr="$startDate"

DaySuffix() {
  case `$date_cmd +%-d --date "$curr"` in
    1|21|31) echo "st";;
    2|22)    echo "nd";;
    3|23)    echo "rd";;
    *)       echo "th";;
  esac
}

function print_day_wiki_link {

    if [ "$checkFileExists" != true ]; then
        printf "| $hle[[ %s \| %s ]]$hle " "`$date_cmd +$linkFormat --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
        return
    fi

    day_suffix=$(DaySuffix)
    # replace the string 'XX' with the day suffix if it is found within the linkFormat string
    linkTemplate=${linkFormat/XX/$day_suffix}

    # Main link output
    testFile="$dailyNotePath/`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`.md"

    hil="" #no highlight by default
    if [ `$date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d --date "$curr"` == `$date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d`  ]; then
        hil="$hlt"
    fi

    if [ -e "$testFile" ]; then # Daily note file exists
        printf "| $hil$hle[[ %s \| %s ]]$hle$hil " "`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
        countExistingNotes=$((countExistingNotes+1))
    elif [ "$linkNonExisting" == true ]; then # Daily note file does not exists, but still make a link
        printf "| $hil$hlne[[ %s \| %s ]]$hlne$hil " "`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
        countNonExistingNotes=$((countNonExistingNotes+1))
    elif [ "$linkNonExisting" == false ]; then # Daily note DNE and also do not link
        printf "| $hil$hlne%s$hlne$hil " "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
        countNonExistingNotes=$((countNonExistingNotes+1))
    fi
}

while true; do
    # echo "$curr"
    [ "$curr" \< "$endDate"  ] || break

    # Print the table header on the first day of the month
    if [ `$date_cmd +%d --date "$curr"` == "01" ]; then

        # pad the end of the last month
        if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr -1 day"` != "Sun" ] && [ $curr != $startDate ]; then

            # day in the week
            ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`

            # loop from last day to the end of the week
            for i in $(seq $ndays 7); do
                printf "|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
            done
            # close the last column
            printf "|" >> "$outputFile"

        fi

        # start a new month
        printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "$monthHeadingLvl %s\n" "`$date_cmd +"$monthHeadingFormat" --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "${navigation}" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"

        printf "| $hWeek | $hMon | $hTue | $hWed | $hThu| $hFri | $hSat | $hSun |\n" >> "$outputFile"
        printf "|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|\n" >> "$outputFile"

        # If the months first week doesnt start on Monday, pad it
        # and print the week number
        if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` != "Mon" ]; then
            # print the week number
            printf "|%s" "`$date_cmd +%W --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"

            # day in the week
            ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`
            # minus one for padding
            ndays=`echo "$ndays-1" | bc`

            # loop from Monday to the first day of the month
            for i in $(seq 1 $ndays); do
                printf "|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
            done
        fi
    fi

    # start the week row with the week number
    if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` == "Mon" ]; then
        printf "|%s" "`$date_cmd +%W --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
    fi

    # Main link output - no arguments, only uses global vars
    print_day_wiki_link

    # End the row on Sunday
    if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` == "Sun" ]; then
        printf "|\n" >> "$outputFile"
    fi

    # increment the date by one day
    curr=$( $date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d --date "$curr +1 day" )
done

# print the last day and finish the month off
print_day_wiki_link


# pad the end of the last month
if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` != "Sun" ] ; then

    # day in the week
    ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`

    # loop from last day to the end of the week
    for i in $(seq $ndays 7); do
        printf "|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
    done
    # close the last column
    printf "|" >> "$outputFile"

fi

echo "${monthName} ${year} created ✅"

((monthCount++))
done

echo "All notes for ${year} created. Happy New Year! 🥳"
	#!/bin/bash

	# Author: Joschua
	# Gist script link: https://gist.github.com/selfire1/f9ddddedc19a59eb6b3103ab51dec11d
	#
	# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
	# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
	# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
	# (at your option) any later version.
	#
	# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
	# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
	# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
	# GNU General Public License for more details.
	#
	# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
	# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
	#
	# This script is adapted from the following script:
	# Author of the original script: Daniel Brandenburg
	# Original script link: https://gist.github.com/jdbrice/3b7395d7f1ff724a744a26ab9bfd078b


	######################################################################
	# Set the year to be created for here:
	year=2022


	monthCount=1
	while [ $monthCount -le 12 ]
	do

	if (( $monthCount < 10 )); then
	month="0${monthCount}"
	else
	month="${monthCount}"
	fi

	# use `date` on linus, for OSX set this to `gdate` you may need to install it (brew install coreutils)
	date_cmd="gdate"

	# OPTIONS
	lastDay=$(cal $(${date_cmd} +"${monthCount} ${year}") \| awk 'NF {DAYS = $NF}; END {print DAYS}')
	# Date range to generate
	startDate=${year}-${month}-01
	endDate=${year}-${month}-${lastDay}

	monthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${startDate}")

	#relative or full path to output file
	outputFile="${year}-${month}-${monthName}.md"

	# navigation
	if test $monthCount -eq 1; then
	# January Note
	((prevMonthNo=12))
	((nextMonthNo=2))
	nextMonthPad="02"
	prevMonthName="December"
	nextMonthName="February"
	((prevYear=$year-1))
	navigation="[[${prevYear}-${prevMonthNo}-${prevMonthName}\|← ${prevMonthName}]] \| [[${year}-${nextMonthPad}-${nextMonthName}\|${nextMonthName} →]]"
	elif test $monthCount -eq 12; then
	# December Notes
	((prevMonthNo=11))
	((nextMonthNo=1))
	nextMonthNoPad="01"
	prevMonthName="November"
	nextMonthName="January"
	((nextYear=$year+1))
	navigation="[[${year}-${prevMonthNo}-${prevMonthName}\|← ${prevMonthName}]] \| [[${nextYear}-${nextMonthNoPad}-${nextMonthName}\|${nextMonthName} →]]"

	else
	# All other months
	((prevMonthNo=$monthCount-1))
	((nextMonthNo=$monthCount+1))

	if (( $prevMonthNo < 10 )); then
	prevMonthPad="0${prevMonthNo}"
	else
	prevMonthPad="${prevMonthNo}"
	fi

	if (( $nextMonthNo < 10 )); then
	nextMonthPad="0${nextMonthNo}"
	else
	nextMonthPad="${nextMonthNo}"
	fi

	prevMonthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${year}-${prevMonthNo}-01")
	nextMonthName=$(${date_cmd} +%B --date "${year}-${nextMonthNo}-01")
	navigation="[[${year}-${prevMonthPad}-${prevMonthName}\|← ${prevMonthName}]] \| [[${year}-${nextMonthPad}-${nextMonthName}\|${nextMonthName} →]]"
	fi

	# controls the link format for each day:
	# [[ $linkFormat \| $displayFormat ]]
	# Note: you can include `XX` immediately after the day number to get the ordinal suffix
	linkFormat="%Y-%m-%d"
	displayFormat="%e"

	# marker for empty days in calendar view
	emptydays="--"

	monthHeadingLvl="# " # the heading used for the months
	monthHeadingFormat="%B, %Y"

	# table headers
	hWeek="Week"
	hMon="Mon"
	hTue="Tue"
	hWed="Wed"
	hThu="Thu"
	hFri="Fri"
	hSat="Sat"
	hSun="Sun"

	#####################################
	# should we check for file existance?
	# if false the following options wont work
	# checking all the files is a little slow,
	# so you can turn it off if you want
	checkFileExists=false

	#no trailing slash please
	dailyNotePath="~/Dropbox/Vault/Journals"

	# Should non-existing notes get linked?
	linkNonExisting=true

	#highlight the link for (non)existing
	# link is wrapped with this e.g. [[ link \| display ]]
	hle="" #exsting or used for all if checkFileExists=false
	hlne="" # not existing
	hlt="==" #highlight for today's date (in addition to others)

	frontmatter="---
	alias: ${monthName} ${year}
	tags: monthlyjournals
	---
	up:: [[${year}]]"


	# END OPTIONS
	######################################################################

	# Count the number of daily notes that you have
	# TODO:
	# - breakdown by day / week / month
	# - consider metrics on files themselves (word count etc.)
	countExistingNotes=0
	countNonExistingNotes=0

	# initialize the output file
	echo "${frontmatter}" > "$outputFile"
	curr="$startDate"

	DaySuffix() {
	case `$date_cmd +%-d --date "$curr"` in
	1\|21\|31) echo "st";;
	2\|22) echo "nd";;
	3\|23) echo "rd";;
	*) echo "th";;
	esac
	}

	function print_day_wiki_link {

	if [ "$checkFileExists" != true ]; then
	printf "\| $hle[[ %s \\| %s ]]$hle " "`$date_cmd +$linkFormat --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	return
	fi

	day_suffix=$(DaySuffix)
	# replace the string 'XX' with the day suffix if it is found within the linkFormat string
	linkTemplate=${linkFormat/XX/$day_suffix}

	# Main link output
	testFile="$dailyNotePath/`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`.md"

	hil="" #no highlight by default
	if [ `$date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d --date "$curr"` == `$date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d` ]; then
	hil="$hlt"
	fi

	if [ -e "$testFile" ]; then # Daily note file exists
	printf "\| $hil$hle[[ %s \\| %s ]]$hle$hil " "`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	countExistingNotes=$((countExistingNotes+1))
	elif [ "$linkNonExisting" == true ]; then # Daily note file does not exists, but still make a link
	printf "\| $hil$hlne[[ %s \\| %s ]]$hlne$hil " "`$date_cmd +$linkTemplate --date "$curr"`" "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	countNonExistingNotes=$((countNonExistingNotes+1))
	elif [ "$linkNonExisting" == false ]; then # Daily note DNE and also do not link
	printf "\| $hil$hlne%s$hlne$hil " "`$date_cmd +$displayFormat --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	countNonExistingNotes=$((countNonExistingNotes+1))
	fi
	}

	while true; do
	# echo "$curr"
	[ "$curr" \< "$endDate" ] \|\| break

	# Print the table header on the first day of the month
	if [ `$date_cmd +%d --date "$curr"` == "01" ]; then

	# pad the end of the last month
	if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr -1 day"` != "Sun" ] && [ $curr != $startDate ]; then

	# day in the week
	ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`

	# loop from last day to the end of the week
	for i in $(seq $ndays 7); do
	printf "\|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
	done
	# close the last column
	printf "\|" >> "$outputFile"

	fi

	# start a new month
	printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "$monthHeadingLvl %s\n" "`$date_cmd +"$monthHeadingFormat" --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "${navigation}" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "\n" >> "$outputFile"

	printf "\| $hWeek \| $hMon \| $hTue \| $hWed \| $hThu\| $hFri \| $hSat \| $hSun \|\n" >> "$outputFile"
	printf "\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|:---:\|\n" >> "$outputFile"

	# If the months first week doesnt start on Monday, pad it
	# and print the week number
	if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` != "Mon" ]; then
	# print the week number
	printf "\|%s" "`$date_cmd +%W --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"

	# day in the week
	ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`
	# minus one for padding
	ndays=`echo "$ndays-1" \| bc`

	# loop from Monday to the first day of the month
	for i in $(seq 1 $ndays); do
	printf "\|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
	done
	fi
	fi

	# start the week row with the week number
	if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` == "Mon" ]; then
	printf "\|%s" "`$date_cmd +%W --date "$curr"`" >> "$outputFile"
	fi

	# Main link output - no arguments, only uses global vars
	print_day_wiki_link

	# End the row on Sunday
	if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` == "Sun" ]; then
	printf "\|\n" >> "$outputFile"
	fi

	# increment the date by one day
	curr=$( $date_cmd +%Y-%m-%d --date "$curr +1 day" )
	done

	# print the last day and finish the month off
	print_day_wiki_link


	# pad the end of the last month
	if [ `$date_cmd +%a --date "$curr"` != "Sun" ] ; then

	# day in the week
	ndays=`$date_cmd +%u --date "$curr"`

	# loop from last day to the end of the week
	for i in $(seq $ndays 7); do
	printf "\|$emptydays" >> "$outputFile"
	done
	# close the last column
	printf "\|" >> "$outputFile"

	fi

	echo "${monthName} ${year} created ✅"

	((monthCount++))
	done

	echo "All notes for ${year} created. Happy New Year! 🥳"