A plugin for Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) that adds additional `x-callback-url` endpoints to the app for common actions — it's a clean, super-charged addition to Obsidian URI.
Currently, when note creation is attempted, and a note already exists (ex: create daily note, daily note already in place), an error is returned. One could use the optional overwrite flag to overwrite the existing note, but this is not always desirable. It would be nice to have an optional parameter that would allow the user to skip creation, i.e. to handle an existing target note not as a fail state but as a success state.
Idea
New optional if-exists parameter for note creation routes, only used in case the target note already exists. If its value is skip, the route will return a success response, but will not create a new note. If its value is overwrite, the current note will effectively be deleted, then created from scratch. (This would supersede and effectively deprecate the overwrite parameter.)
If if-exists isn't set, and the target note already exists, an error will be returned as it was before.
czottmann
commented
1 year ago
Currently, when note creation is attempted, and a note already exists (ex: create daily note, daily note already in place), an error is returned. One could use the optional
overwriteflag to overwrite the existing note, but this is not always desirable. It would be nice to have an optional parameter that would allow the user to skip creation, i.e. to handle an existing target note not as a fail state but as a success state.Idea
New optional
if-existsparameter for note creation routes, only used in case the target note already exists. If its value isskip, the route will return a success response, but will not create a new note. If its value isoverwrite, the current note will effectively be deleted, then created from scratch. (This would supersede and effectively deprecate theoverwriteparameter.)If
if-existsisn't set, and the target note already exists, an error will be returned as it was before./daily-note/create✅ 2023-04-14/note/create✅ 2023-04-14/daily-note/create(incl.overwriteparameter deprecation notice) ✅ 2023-04-14/note/create(incl.overwriteparameter deprecation notice) ✅ 2023-04-14ZCO-126