michaelw - Obsidian Journal Update

script

function insertIntoDailyNote(p_strJournalAddition)
{
	// Settings
	const ENTRY_SPACER = " ";
	const OBSIDIAN_FOLDER_BOOKMARK = "obsidian_drafts";
	const JOURNALPATH = "/Daily/";
	const REGEX_SECTIONS = /(.*)(## Journal\n)(.*)(\n\n\n)(.*)/gs;

	// Set up file access and get file content
	let bmObisidian = Bookmark.findOrCreate(OBSIDIAN_FOLDER_BOOKMARK);
	let fmObsidian = FileManager.createForBookmark(bmObisidian);
	let strDailyNotePath = JOURNALPATH + draft.processTemplate("[[date]]") + ".md";
	let strDailyNoteContent = fmObsidian.readString(strDailyNotePath);

	// If the daily note does not exist, log it and bail out
	if (strDailyNoteContent === undefined)
	{
		console.log(strDailyNotePath + " not found");
		return false;
	}

	// Build new content and add it to the daily note
	// - Input is processed per line and whitespace is trimmed
	// - Inserting is before the two blank lines first found after the H2 Journal heading (Markdown)
	// - Boolean success of the file updating is returned.
	let strContentToInsert =  p_strJournalAddition.split('\n').map(s => draft.processTemplate("\n[[date|%R]]") + ENTRY_SPACER + s.trim()).join("");;
	strDailyNoteContent = strDailyNoteContent.replace(REGEX_SECTIONS, "$1$2$3" + strContentToInsert + "$4$5");
	return fmObsidian.writeString(strDailyNotePath, strDailyNoteContent);
}

// Add current draft to dail note in Obsidian as journal entries
if (insertIntoDailyNote(draft.content)) app.displaySuccessMessage("Daily Note Updated");
else app.displayErrorMessage("Failed to Update Daily Note");