Thanks for your answer, Mark. Someone else private-messaged me with a
similar solution to yours that did the trick. I suspected the solution was
simple but I was complicating it with extra steps and extra lingo.
On Friday, July 1, 2016 at 1:08:42 AM UTC+2, Mark S. wrote:
>
> It depends how you went about it. If you just used a button and an action
> widget, you can do something like this:
>
> <$button>Make tiddler with date
> <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<now "Today is DDth,
> MMM YYYY">> tags="OneTag [[Another Tag]]" text=/>
> </$button>
>
> Which uses the "now" macro with a date format string.
>
> HTH
> Mark
>
> On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:02:55 PM UTC-7, Eli B. wrote:
>>
>> I did further research and was able to do the transclusions and tagging
>> with one button. Now if I could only just add the date-stamp in the title
>> field with the same button.
>>
>> On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 6:21:29 PM UTC+2, Eli B. wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I've made a full Journal Template using various transclusions for
>>> headings, etc. which point to other tiddlers.
>>>
>>>
>>> At the moment I enter each transclusion manually every time I write a
>>> journal, like so:
>>>
>>>
>>> <--! this points to one tiddler for heading format-->
>>>
>>> {{||A}}
>>>
>>> <--! this points to another tiddler for another heading-->
>>>
>>> {{||B}}
>>>
>>> <--! and these point to other tiddlers, and so on-->
>>>
>>> {{||C}}
>>>
>>> {{||D}}
>>>
>>> {{||E}}
>>>
>>>
>>> What I'd like to create is a button that:
>>>
>>> - automatically enters all those transclusions into the body of a
>>> new tiddler
>>> - tags it as Journal
>>> - and places a date-stamp in the title field
>>>
>>> With some outdated tutorials I've found, I've been able to place the
>>> template as a footer of a new tiddler; which is not what I'd like to
>>> accomplish. I feel like I'm so close, but yet so far. I've done a search in
>>> the forum but have not found a proper answer. Does anyone have any
>>> suggestions or can point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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