Daily Notes / Insert Text At Placeholder In Daily Note
Searches today's Daily Note for a specified placeholder and either adds text above it, below it, or replaces it entirely.
A "placeholder" is a one-line comment: a piece of text enclosed in double percent signs, e.g. %%My Placeholder%% . Because Obsidian does not render the comment outside of edit mode, it is perfect for marking places in a document where text can be added later.
When naming the placeholder in the action, you can omit the percent signs.
This action returns an error if there is no Daily Note for the current date, so it's best to use it after the "Check For Existence Of Daily Note" action has determined that it actually exists.
Available Options
Where should the text be inserted?
The text can be placed above the placeholder, below it or it can replace the placeholder entirely.
Hint: When adding items to a list, and you want to add new items to the end of the list, select "above placeholder"; if new items are supposed to go to the top of the list, select "below placeholder".
Examples
Suppose your current Daily Note has the following content, including a placeholder %%placeholder1%% . We'll insert the texts text 1 , text 2 and text 3 in sequence.
## Headline 1
%%placeholder1%%
## Headline 2
something else
Inserting above the placeholder
The result would be:
## Headline 1
text 1
text 2
text 3
%%placeholder1%%
## Headline 2
something else
Inserting below the placeholder
The result would be:
## Headline 1
%%placeholder1%%
text 3
text 2
text 1
## Headline 2
something else
This is because after text 1 is inserted, text 2 is placed directly below the placeholder (as it should be), i.e. in-between the placeholder and text 1 .
Replacing the placeholder
The result this time:
## Headline 1
text 1
## Headline 2
something else
The first insertion replaced the placeholder, and text 2 and text 3 have nowhere to go.