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Old Note Admonitor

tadashi-aikawatadashi-aikawa5k downloads

Show warnings if the note has not been updated for over specific days.

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This Obsidian plugin shows admonitions if the note has not been updated for over specific days.

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👥 For users

⏬ Install

You can download via Community plugins > Browse.

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⚙ Settings

Message template

If today is 2022-09-11 and the date on the note is 2022-09-01,

  • It shows 10 days passed! if you set ${numberOfDays} days passed!
  • It shows 10 days passed since 2022-09-01 if you set ${numberOfDays} days passed since ${date}

Default: The following content hasn't been updated in the last ${numberOfDays} days

Date to be referred

The setting is to decide what to reference the date from.

  • Modified time
  • Front matter
  • Capture group

Default: Modified time

Modified time

File last modified date ( = TFile.stat.mtime).

Front matter

front matter

The Front matter key option can specify any key name.

Default: updated

Capture group

If you set ^// updated: (?<date>[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2}) to Capture group pattern, the date is extracted as follows.

capture-group

Default: ^// (?<date>[0-9]{4}/[0-9]{2}/[0-9]{2})

Min number of days to show a warning

If today is 2022-09-11 and the date on the note is 2022-09-01.

  • It shows warnings if you set 10 or over
  • It doesn't show warnings if you set it under 10

Default: 180

Trigger to update

  • On open file: Update a warning after switching an active file
  • On open or save file: Update a warning after switching an active file or (auto) saving a file

Exclude prefix path patterns

If set, It doesn't show a warning in the file whose path starts with one of the patterns. It can set multi patterns by line breaks.

For example, You want to ignore the following files.

  • Daily Report/10/2022-10-01.md
  • Daily Report/10/2022-10-02.md
  • Daily Report/11/2022-11-05.md
  • Daily Report/11/2022-11-06.md

You have to set

Daily Report/

or

Daily Report/10/
Daily Report/11/

🎨 Styles

You can customize the style of admonitions by editing the following classes.

  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container
  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container:before
  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container__warning
  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container__warning:before
  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container__error
  • .old-note-admonitor__old-note-container__error:before

For details, please show style.css.

🖥️ For developers

  • Requirements
    • Task

Development

task init
task dev

Release

task release VERSION=1.2.3
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Show admonitions on notes not updated within a set number of days, using file modified time, a front-matter key, or a regex capture group to determine the date. Customize the warning template with ${numberOfDays} and ${date}, choose update triggers (open/save), exclude path prefixes, and style the admonition via CSS.
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Details
Current version
0.8.0
Last updated
3 years ago
Created
4 years ago
Updates
10 releases
Downloads
5k
Compatible with
Obsidian 0.16.0+
License
MIT
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Author
tadashi-aikawatadashi-aikawa
github.com/tadashi-aikawa
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