template that automates up:: [[parent note]]

[081isaac]

I follow a note organization system from Linking Your Thinking, and at the top of his template he has a place to link the parent note to better visualize in graph view and to connect the notes.

Example, a parent note could be technology. Then you could create a link to a new note inside of the technology note called phone. Inside of the phone note he applies a template that has "up:: " written at the top. But, every time he has to manually type in the parent note, in this case it would like "up:: [[technology]]". Is there a way to automate the linking of the parent note for the template?

[Zachatoo]

What's the user flow? Are you clicking on a link to a note that doesn't exist, which is triggering a template that sets the up:: [[parent]] for you? If you aren't, then how do you know what the parent of that note is?

[081isaac]

Yes, you click on a link to a note that does not exist. Since I have the Hotkeys for templates plugin I then normally just press ctrl+t (the hotkey I designated for this template). This creates the "up:: " text for me, but then I have to manually go up and type the link to the parent note. And, idk the coding part for this, but I feel like there should be a way in obsidian to find what note is linked to the newly created note.

[Zachatoo]

So really, what you want is a link to the note that was previously open before you opened this new note and applied a template to it. Does that sound right?

[danielo515]

Why not doing it in reverse order? To trigger the child note creation from the parent note, so you just need to insert a link to the previous file.

[081isaac]

Yes.

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[Zachatoo]

I don't know if this will work consistently, but this worked in my limited testing.

up:: [[<% app.workspace.lastActiveFile.basename %>]]

[Zachatoo]

I think I've found a better answer than my previous answer:

<%*
const parentFile = tp.file.find_tfile(app.workspace.getLastOpenFiles()[0]);
const parentLink = app.fileManager.generateMarkdownLink(parentFile, tp.file.folder(true));
-%>
up:: <% parentLink %>

Will keep it updated here if I find anything better.

[081isaac]

haha awesome man, this works. do you have like a crypto address for me to compensate you

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On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 3:14 PM Zach Young ***@***.***> wrote: I think I've found a better answer than my previous answer: <%*const parentFile = tp.file.find_tfile(app.workspace.getLastOpenFiles()[0]);const parentLink = app.fileManager.generateMarkdownLink(parentFile, tp.file.folder(true));-%>up:: <% parentLink %> Will keep it updated here <https://zachyoung.dev/posts/templater-snippets#generating-links> if I find anything better. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1173 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BAUZFZJWUL5RYJVQBKVE4CTX34YJBANCNFSM6AAAAAA3ZHY6OM> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>