Obsidian Daily Note - An Alfred workflow

An Alfred workflow that opens and appends a breadcrumb and header to Obsidian's Daily Note.

Supports Alfred 4 on macOS 10.7+ on Obsidian 0.8.15 and 0.9.1.

Features

• Set a hotkey or keyword
• Checks to see if there is already a breadcrumb in the file. If there is not, it will append the breadcrumb and header to the note.
• Opens the Obsidian app.

This workflow does the following:

• Checks to see if you have a breadcrumb, if not;
• Appends a breadcrumb and "h2 date" to the top of the daily note in the follow format:

[[YYYY-MM-DD-1day]] | [[YYYY-MM-DD+1day]] > ## h2 Day of week, MM DD YYYY

• opens the Obsidian app.

Installation

• Goto Obsidian's settings under 'Plugins', enable 'Daily Notes'.

• Download the Extension.

• Install the extension.

• Navigate to the Workflow area on Alfred and select Obsidian Daily.

• Double click on 'Hotkey' and setup your hotkey if you wish to use hotkeys.

• Double click on 'keyword' to configure your keyword.

• Double click on 'Run Script' to configure the script.

• In the script editor, change Step 1 to your vault name.

  • vault="change this value to your vault name"

• In the script editor, change Step 2 to where your vault is located. (You can find this information by clicking on 'Open another vault' and looking at the left column under your vault name.)

  • If your vault is located in "Users//Documents/" then the default location is below. $HOME represents the home directory, in this case "/Users//"
  • change "loc=$HOME"/Documents" to your vault directory. (Don't add a forwardslash at the end)

• Make sure Obsidian's settings > Plugins > Daily note, the date format is default at "YYYY-MM-DD".

• Run Alfred Workflow