📅 Date Automations
Helping you move faster with dates and times
DateAutomations
DateAutomations includes a number of commands for inserting date/time values into your NotePlan notes
Commands
/dp - Date Picker - Choose format/date from Command Bar
TRY THIS FIRST! Choose from a variety of date/time formats from a menu. This also shows you in parentheses the dateStyle and timeStyle to yield this result (which you could enter into your Template plugin date defaults). This is also a good way to see what you want some of your settings to be.
Note: uses locale
from settings as a base and provides lots of variations
/ldn - Link Daily Note
e.g. [[2022-04-16]] Create a link to the daily Calendar Note and insert it at the cursor
/now - Insert date and time at cursor
e.g. 6/19/2021 06:55:22
Note: uses dateStyle
, timeStyle
, locale
from settings; run /dp
command to see your options
/now - ISO-8601 standard -- Insert ISO-8601 date+time at cursor
e.g. 2021-08-06 17:20
Note: does not use any settings. If you want another format, use /formatted
command and setting.
/date - Insert Date at cursor
e.g. 6/19/2021
Note: uses locale
in plugin settings; run /dp
command to see your options
/time - Insert time at cursor
e.g. 06:55:22
Note: uses timeStyle
, locale
, use12hour
from settings; run /dp
command to see your options
/iso - Insert ISO date/time at cursor
e.g. 6/19/2021T18:55:46.101Z
(date/time is in GMT)
/formatted - Insert custom formatted (format) date/time
e.g. 2021-08-14 10:30:00 am
Note: uses format
from settings. See https://www.strfti.me/ for details on the formatting codes
/wd (insertWeekDates)
e.g. Mon 2022-04-11 - Sun 2022-04-17 Note: currently cannot be customized. If you desperately need it to be customizable, let @dwertheimer know in Discord. However, know that you can use the Templating plugin and create a template to insert your custom date.
Notes Regarding Date/Time Formats
- By default, the format of dates and times is "en-US" format.
- By default, the
/formatted
command uses%Y-%m-%d %I:%M:%S %P
(seeTemplates
use below)
Note: You can create your own formats in templates installing the Templating
plugin and following the directions
If you install this plugin and run /dp
command, you will get some ideas for dateStyle and timeStyle settings
References
The following are some useful references which provide more information about formatting date/time values
Formatting Dates Using strftime for more information about formatting formatted
date/time value
Date Time Formats for more choices/details