This command line interface provides an assortment of features for working with an Obsidian (or other markdown-based) knowledge base from the command line.
While it results in some duplication of functionality, this toolkit is designed to not require any Obsidian plugins, so you really don't even need Obsidian to use this (if you use FOAM, in VS Code, for instance).
Currently, you'll need to clone the repo and build it yourself. Once you have the resulting binaries, just make sure the Obsidian.exe is in your path.
> obsidian daily-note add --date 2025-01-01 --vault vaultThis will create a new daily note, using your default daily note template, in the vault with an id of "vault".
I am using Handlebars.NET to implement the templating, so you can visit their repo for more details on how to compose a template. Note that, currently, the only data being passed into the template is date which represents the date of the note being created.
If there are particular pieces of data that you would find helpful for use in a template, let me know.
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Polish this MVP to make it more robust, with error handling, better documentation, etc.
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Be more cross-platform-aware. I use Obsidian on MacOS at home, and on Windows at work, so I want this tool to work well on both operating systems.
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Implement the recurrence pattern support so you can use different templates for different days, based on the patters defined in the settings file.
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Implement template "inheritance". My thinking, at the moment, is to just do this by running templates in order from the top-down against the target note, so the "child" templates are just applying themselves over top of "parent" templates.
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Implement configuration editing from the CLI.
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Implement Task support, so when you create a new daily-note, we look at the last daily-note to find all the uncompleted tasks and pull them forward into the new note.
To run tests, write some and send me a PR, so we can all benefit!
Contributions are always welcome!
See contributing.md for ways to get started.
Please adhere to this project's code of conduct.