zim-plugin-DateLinker

Overview

Quickly timestamp, link, and backlink Zim wiki(v .74) pages and the journal with a hotkey. Also in emacs within zw-mode

Heavily inspired by now-button.

Install

git clone https://github.com/WillForan/zim-plugin-datelinker ~/.local/share/zim/plugins/datelinker

1. Put this repo within the local zim plugin directory ($XDG_DATA_HOME/zim/plugins/). Zim will find __init__.py in the datelinker directory within plugins
2. You will need to restart zim and enable the plugin from the list under Edit -> Preferences -> Plugins

Description

This plugin provides 3 keybindings for quickly linking and backlinking today's journal page.

• Ctrl+Shift+E OR Alt+g E - link current page onto today's page
  1. The window is navigated to today's journal page.
  2. append e.g. [[Page:IWas:Editting]] - to today's page.
     • if date page is week, text is placed after date header (e.g. line after Friday 31 March header)
• Alt+Shift+D OR Alt+g L- link today's page to current page
  • insert date link [d: yyyy-mm-dd] at current cursor position. Like Ctrl+d but without a dialog first and the linked path starts with :.
• Ctrl+Shift+Y OR Alt+g Y- page's absolute path to clipboard
  • differs from Ctrl+Shift+L in only that the copied path is absolute (starts with :)

Work Flow

date backlinking

1. Ctrl+J jump to title/Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+E search all pages for some text
2. jump to and edit edit page
3. Ctrl+Shift+E to link current page back to the current day + jump to current date

date forward linking

1. Alt+d to go to date page
2. Ctl+L to insert link to page to edit
3. go to page
4. Ctrl+Shift+D to insert link to date and keep editing

ToDo

• unit tests
• zim style plugin documentation