Posts tagged: obsidian

I’ve been using this one for awhile now, I have a post type that I only edit from my phone, but I have all the post numbered. I set up a template in obsidian for using templater, the template goes right in the static site repo, I point templater to the templates directory and this has been working pretty seamlessly for awhile. --- date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss") %> templateKey: myposttype published: true tags: - myposttype <%* const folder = "pages/myposttype"; // get all files in the vault, keep only those inside the folder const files = app.vault.getFiles().filter(f => f.path.startsWith(folder + "/")); // extract numeric suffixes from filenames like myposttype-123.md const nums = files.map(f => { const m = f.basename.match(/^myposttype-(\d+)$/); return m ? parseInt(m[1], 10) : null; }).filter(n => n !== null); // next number (start at 1 if none exist) const next = (nums.length ? Math.max(...nums) : 0) + 1; // include the .md extension when moving const newPath = `${folder}/myposttype-${next}`; await tp.file.move(newPath); %> ---

Wikilinks are a core concept within obsidian to link to documents by Slug [1] wrapped in double square brackets. These are commonly used within wiki site generators. [[slug]] Obsidian gives you a keybinding alt+enter to go to that file, but if it does not exist it will create the file for you in the root of the project. It’s a nice way to quickly make new documents. References: [1]: /slug/

Hotkey to open link under at the text cursor position while typing in edit mode I find myself not wanting to leave the keyboard for navigation and think a keyboard-only shortcut that could open a link at the text cursor position is at would be really handy for this case. Obsidian Forum · forum.obsidian.md [1] Obsidian has a go to definition like feature, the keybind is alt+enter, I would have never guessed this one. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/hotkey-to-open-link-under-at-the-text-cursor-position-while-typing-in-edit-mode/8144 [2]: /thoughts/

It was not obvious to me, but if you have a wikilink such as Trying Obsidian [1], you can jump to the file in obsidian, just like you can with lsp go to definition, the keybinding is alt + enter. References: [1]: /trying-obsidian/

I’ve long used copier to create all of my posts for my blog, and it works really well for my workflow. I think of a title, call a template, and give it a title. out of the box obsidian did not seem to work this way. It seems like it wants me to right click a file tree and make a new file using the tree, this is not my jam. Here is what I came up with to replace my til template. --- date: <% tp.file.creation_date() %> templateKey: til title: <%* const originalFileName = await tp.system.prompt("Enter file name"); const toTitleCase = str => str.replace( /\w\S*/g, txt => txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase() ); const title = toTitleCase(originalFileName); tR += title + '\n'; // Add the title to the template result -%> published: true tags: - --- <%* const fileName = originalFileName.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); const newFilePath = `pages/til/${fileName}`; await tp.file.move(newFilePath); -%> <% tp.file.cursor() %> - tR is a return value, and it gets placed directly into the place it is in the file - to.file.cursor() creates a tab-index point so I can tab into the content

I’m giving obsidian a go as an editor for my blog and one of the main things I want to fix in my workflow is the ability to quickly drop in images. on first look through the community plugins I found Image Converter. I set it up to convert to webp and drop them in a git [1] submodule. I may make it something other than a git repo in the future, but I’ve learned that adding images to my blog repo quickly makes it heavy and hard to clone on other machines. [2] Once the images are there they are pushed and deployed as their own site to cloudflare pages. I made a quick edit to my sick wikilink hover [3] plugin for my blog. if it sees a wikilink ending in webp, convert the domain over to obsidian-assets.waylonwalker.com, and clean up the remaining "! " that the python md-it library leaves behind. Note after first try I needed to increase the width from 600 to 1400, the image in this post was unreadable. This is part of me getting set up and Trying Obsidian [4] References: [1]: /glossary/git/ [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/626d85b1-5588-45c4-a4f4-c372dc7c8ff3.webp [3]: /sick-wikilink-hover/ [4]: /trying-obsidian/