Add Notes to Journal Journal not working for me

[cragettli]

Thank you very much for this plugin. It will replace Calendar and Periodic Notes for me. I'm looking forward for version v2! I can't add my current daily journals (created with Calendar/Periodic Notes) to journals :( The old journals are in the same folder structure as the new one: Journal/YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD The add process finds the 1st Daily Note and then nothing happens :( The Debugger window shows: plugin:journals:1187 Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'day') at AddNotesJournalModal.eval (plugin:journals:1187:45) at Generator.next () at fulfilled (plugin:journals:25:58) The same happens, if I change "Take date from" from "note title" to Property and set this to the "old" YAML-Field

[srg-kostyrko]

Could you please attach screenshot of settings that you try to use and also screenshot of second step when process starts

[cragettli]

Here are the Screenshots. Journals "stops" after finding the 1st Note to convert. "Debug-Window" is from Obsidian Debug (Chrome I think) Thank you very much and best regards!

[srg-kostyrko]

and could you also please expand that error by clicking on it - it probably will show more data on where it happened

[cragettli]

That's the expanded error obsidian.md-1728912489436.log

[srg-kostyrko]

thank you for the details - I was able to identify the problem I'll release a fix today or tomorrow

[cragettli]

Thanks a you very much Sergii!

[srg-kostyrko]

I release 1.4.1 that should solve this problem - please give it a try

[cragettli]

Thank you Sergii! Good things first: no more errors in the debug console. But still no conversion :(. The .md files are not accepted as markdown files:

[cragettli]

If I connect a journal entry manually it works. It looks a little bit strange, because I had to integrate the folder in the name. At the end the not is in the same folder with the same name as before, just the necessary properties are added:

[srg-kostyrko]

🤦 I was sure I checked that change that should skip processing other file formats (I noticed problem while testing) but apparently it had an issue 1.4.2 with fix is out

regarding you next comment: it happens because you defined date format with slashes inside - that was the only way to get year/month folders in periodic notes. It works in Journals as well but I generally don't recommend it (I will probably add a comment in v2 about this) - because as you see in some cases that format definition works bad a better way would be

• use YYYY-MM-DD as date format
• to get year/month folders - use variables with custom format for folder path - 20_Speial-Notes/21_Journal/{{date:YYYY}}/{{date:MM}}

[cragettli]

Perfect! Thank you very much! For v2, it would be nice (I will not use it anymore ;)), if the window which shows the progress of the connected notes (actually it doesn't): As you suggested I changed the folder of my daily notes to {{date:YYYY}}/{{date:MM}} (root is already on "20_Special-Notes/21_Journal" and it works perfect! Thanks once more! Now I just need to fix the problem, that at the moment the new note dismiss my defined cursor position (in templater defined) on first opening

[srg-kostyrko]

the problem, that at the moment the new note dismiss my defined cursor position (in templater defined) on first opening

hm this may be related to how plugin integrates with templater I don't know templater that deep - could you please describe how exactly you define cursor position with templater

[cragettli]

I set (as described in https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-daily-note-template/):

<% tp.file.cursor() %> to tell Obsidian where to place your cursor once Templater creates each new Daily Note. To use this, place the code <% tp.file.cursor() %> wherever you want your cursor to appear (maybe on the first bullet point under Notes, or under the first daily question). Then, in Templater settings, make sure you have the following enabled:

• Automatic jump to cursor
• Trigger Templater on new file creation

But looked, that I meet your recommendation:

There can be cases when Templater starts interfering with plugin actions resulting in partially broken note ot journal related data removed from frontmatter. The best setup to avoid such problems would be:

• template configured in journal plugin settings
• Trigger Templater on new file creation is disabled
• OR Trigger Templater on new file creation is enabled, Enable Folder Templates is enabled, NO Folder template is configured This ensures that only journal plugin is processing note template thus avoiding conflicts with templater plugin (journal plugin will use templater itself under the hood to process templater commands).

The cursor always jumps to "```calendar-nav" after opening the note. But it doesn't matter. I can (very well) live with your Plugin! Thanks alot again!

[srg-kostyrko]

Yeh this is definitely about integration - I'll create a separate issue to investigate on how to fix it Closing this one as the initial problem is resolved