Post #2135627

2026-04-30 15:49 UTC

@bw Very cool. I like how properties are handled—some of my notes have a pretty lengthy properties section, so putting it above the title and making it collapsible is smart. Curious, though, what's the smaller set—date, time, tags—below the note? Is that auto-generated? And also, what plugin are you using for the calendar? That's neat.

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@bw@social.lol 2026-04-30 16:02

@csilverman the metadata at the bottom is just a long-standing pattern that I've been doing for over a decade, regardless of which notetaking app I'm using at the time. Previously, I created it with a TextExpander snippet, but with Obsidian, I'm using a template to auto-generate it. The date and time is a little redundant because the template also adds created and modified fields in properties. But I've been doing it so long that I just keep doing it. If I were redoing it now, I'd probably put the tags at the top of the file instead of the bottom, but that ship has sailed lol. I'm using a community plugin called Calendar. Makes it easy to create daily notes on any day. I may have gone a little overboard with plugins (I should do the obligatory My Obsidian Setup blog post), but I'm not reliant on most of them. And then to top off all of this glorious nerdery, I have a CLI program that I made that lets me publish any note to my web server as a basic HTML page styled with Water.css. It doesn't happen often, but every now and then there will be something I want to share. Example: https://blakewatson.com/notes/951626b6/

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