Thanks for the detailed response Tony, I think the "new here" functionality might just work for me
Cheers On Saturday, 18 April 2020 14:40:55 UTC+10, TonyM wrote: > > Seano, > > Short answer yes, I will see if I can make a simple modification to the > New Journal button. > There is another method though, > > - the new Journal button can be customised to create tiddlers titles > see Control Panel > Info eg YY0MM0DD > perhaps you already use this? > - This will always open todays tiddler if it exists, this is actually > a nice feature. > - So rather than create more tiddlers with the title, why not open the > days journal tiddler and use new here, this will tag any tiddler you > create > with the title (date) of the Journal Tiddler. > - Or play with the new Journal Here button. > > Some research notes; > > This is the tiddler for the New Journal Button (appears in sidebar) > is $:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal, This triggers actions > in $:/core/ui/Actions/new-journal > Changing the `<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler"` to use the > ActionCreateTiddlerWidget > Would allow you to automatically increment the tiddler name > > See also $:/core/ui/Buttons/new-journal-here > > I can go forward and look at doing what you request, by modifying the > Journal tiddlers, but let me know if you want that, if my above method > works for you. Its always better to avoid core button changes, perhaps > creating a new one, so that tiddlywiki updates are applied. > > Personally I modified $:/core/ui/Actions/new-journal to use the following > modified action; > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<journalTitle>> > tags=<<journalTags>> text=<<journalText>> journal-date=<<now > "YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ss000">>/> > so What ever I name a journal it has a time date stamp for searching and > ordering. > > In your use case this would help, because you do need to interrogate the > title to find all with that same date. > > Regards > Tony > > > > > On Saturday, April 18, 2020 at 10:53:18 AM UTC+10, Seano wrote: >> >> Is it possible to configure the "Title of new tiddler" setting to >> generate titles in the following format: YYMMDD-x (where x increases by 1 >> for every subsequent note on the same day)? >> >> Apologies if this is a basic question, as I don't have any experience >> with programming. Cheers. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/656b6d16-4cb5-44a7-9922-01dff0effb5e%40googlegroups.com.
