glassknife 0.1.0

make-indexes

Create a set of yearly and monthly index files for daily notes files.

I have a Daily notes directory with a lot of unindexed notes in it. I wanted to have Maps of Content from calendar months to all the notes in each month, and MOCs from years to the monthly MOCs in each year. For instance, suppose I have these daily notes:

• 2020-12-31.md

• 2021-01-01.md

• 2021-01-02.md

• 2021-02-02.md

Then I’d want to have annual indexes like Daily notes - 2020.md:

Months in 2020:

We stayed home a lot this year.

---

[[Daily notes - 2020-12]]

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and Daily notes - 2021.md:

Months in 2021:

---

[[Daily notes - 2021-01]]
[[Daily notes - 2021-02]]

---

This is the year we went camping a lot!

Each month’s index would look similar, like Daily notes - 2021-01.md:

Days in 2021-01:

We made it to a grocery store this month.

---

[[2021-01-01]]
[[2021-01-02]]

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make-indexes Everything does this for me. Now it’s easy to drill down to all the months in 2021, and from there all the days in September 2021. I run it from an hourly cron job like:

0 * * * * /path/to/glassknife/.venv/bin/make-indexes Everything

Note that make-indexes “owns” the content between the two separator --- lines. Your own notes above and below that block are yours to edit as you see fit.

process-notes

Send items in your daily notes to other programs.

I wrote a Quick Journaling extension for Drafts. After finding Obsidian, I wanted something similar for it so that I could record actions I want to take and journal entries I’d like to make into applications other than Obsidian (which is brilliant for lots of things but still bested by special-purpose applications in some ways). This is the start of my answer to it. My daily notes template looks like:

# Work

# Personal

#unprocessed

After adding things to a note all day, the note might end up looking like:

# Work

- [ ] Tell boss I'm going on vacation

# Personal

Worked on [[Glass Knife]] project.
* Had dim sum for lunch.
Watching [[Ted Lasso]]
* Took the car for an oil change.
- [ ] Buy coffee filters
- Water the plant

# unprocessed

Running process-notes Everything with the sample configuration given above will do a few things:

• Lines starting with “- [ ] “ will turn into OmniFocus actions and be removed from the daily note.

• Lines starting with “- “ will become actions in the Reminders.app Inbox.

• Lines starting with “* “ will be collected together and turned into a Day One journal entry, and removed from the daily note.

• Since the # Work section is now empty, it will be removed from the daily note.

• The #unprocessed tag will be removed from the daily note.

The end result will look like:

# Personal

Worked on [[Glass Knife]] project.
Watching [[Ted Lasso]]

If the resulting note is completely empty because all lines have been processed and there are no sections left, it will be deleted.

I run this nightly with a cron job:

50 23 * * * /path/to/obsidian/.venv/bin/process-notes Stuff

process_notes:
    actions:
        "- ": Reminders
        "* ": "Day One"
        "- [ ] ": OmniFocus