macrospecter
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1 month ago For what it's worth, I was able to achieve something similar to this requested feature on a Mac by tweaking the workflow on my own. Here's what I did: I opened the workflow script append-to-note.js (by right-clicking on the name of the Workflow in Alfred preferences and selecting Open in Finder). I then edited the script in two ways, as follows. What I did here was switch around the order, in the "writeToFile" line in the "APPEND TO FILE" section, of the existing content of the note and the new content to be added. The first version just does that; the second version also adds spacing and a date to the prepended content, and that requires altering the "toAppend" constant. To work, the second version requires that you enter {date} in the Prefix field in the workflow's Configuration panel within Alfred preferences.
I'm a novice at coding and Alfred, so this might well be done more elegantly, or there may be concerning use cases, but this works for me!
`//─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── // PREPEND TO FILE
if (!notePathHasHeading) {
writeToFile(absolutePath, toAppend + "\n" + noteContent);
return relativePath; // return for opening function
}
// determine heading location to append to
const lines = noteContent.split("\n");
const headingLineNo = lines
.map((line) => {
const lineIsHeading = line.match(/^#+ /);
if (lineIsHeading) return line.replace(/^#+ /gm, "");
return ""; // ensures that a line with the same content as a heading isn't detected
})
.indexOf(heading);
// guard: heading not found
if (headingLineNo === -1) {
app.displayNotification("", { withTitle: "Heading not found.", subtitle: "Appending to the bottom of the note instead." })
writeToFile(absolutePath, toAppend + "\n" + noteContent);
return relativePath; // return for opening function
}
// Appending at last non-empty line of heading-section
let lastNonEmptyLineNo = -1;
for (let i = headingLineNo + 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
const line = lines[i];
if (isHeading(line)) break;
else if (!isEmpty(line)) lastNonEmptyLineNo = i;
}
if (lastNonEmptyLineNo === -1) {
ensureEmptyLineAt(lines, headingLineNo + 1);
lines.splice(headingLineNo + 2, 0, toAppend);
ensureEmptyLineAt(lines, headingLineNo + 3);
} else {
lines.splice(lastNonEmptyLineNo + 1, 0, toAppend);
}
const content = lines.join("\n");
writeToFile(absolutePath, content);
return relativePath; // return for opening function}`
`/* @type {AlfredRun} / // biome-ignore lint/correctness/noUnusedVariables: Alfred run function run(argv) { const vaultPath = $.getenv("vault_path");
// PREPARE AND READ FILE
let heading = "";
let relativePath = $.getenv("relative_path");
const toAppend1 = $.getenv("prefix");
const toAppend2 = argv[0];
const notePathHasHeading = /#[^ ][^/]*$/.test(relativePath);
if (notePathHasHeading) {
const tempArr = relativePath.split("#");
heading = tempArr.pop();
relativePath = tempArr.join("");
}
let absolutePath = vaultPath + "/" + relativePath;
if (absolutePath.slice(-3) !== ".md") absolutePath += ".md";
if (!fileExists(absolutePath)) return "invalid"; // trigger error notification in Alfred
const noteContent = readFile(absolutePath);
//───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// PREPEND TO FILE
if (!notePathHasHeading) {
writeToFile(absolutePath, toAppend1 + "\n" + toAppend2 + "\n" + "\n" + noteContent);
return relativePath; // return for opening function
}
// determine heading location to append to
const lines = noteContent.split("\n");
const headingLineNo = lines
.map((line) => {
const lineIsHeading = line.match(/^#+ /);
if (lineIsHeading) return line.replace(/^#+ /gm, "");
return ""; // ensures that a line with the same content as a heading isn't detected
})
.indexOf(heading);
// guard: heading not found
if (headingLineNo === -1) {
app.displayNotification("", { withTitle: "Heading not found.", subtitle: "Appending to the bottom of the note instead." })
writeToFile(absolutePath, toAppend1 + "\n" + toAppend2 + "\n" + "\n" + noteContent);
return relativePath; // return for opening function
}
// Appending at last non-empty line of heading-section
let lastNonEmptyLineNo = -1;
for (let i = headingLineNo + 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
const line = lines[i];
if (isHeading(line)) break;
else if (!isEmpty(line)) lastNonEmptyLineNo = i;
}
if (lastNonEmptyLineNo === -1) {
ensureEmptyLineAt(lines, headingLineNo + 1);
lines.splice(headingLineNo + 2, 0, toAppend);
ensureEmptyLineAt(lines, headingLineNo + 3);
} else {
lines.splice(lastNonEmptyLineNo + 1, 0, toAppend);
}
const content = lines.join("\n");
writeToFile(absolutePath, content);
return relativePath; // return for opening function} `
chrisgrieser
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Feature Requested
Thanks for this app, it's fantastic.
I would love to be able to "prepend" (start of note, but below frontmatter) rather than "append" (end of note).
Bonus points if we can even specify where to add the note after like QuickAdd.
Alternatives considered
I am currently using QuickAdd in Obsidian for this, but I believe Shimmering Obsidian could do this even better.
Relevant Screenshot
Hereis an example of Quickadd