Action to add today's date as title?

Actions - Help & Questions
,
1

Hello! I’m new to Drafts and I has running into some issues trying to program an action in order to add the current date as a draft’s title.

Ideally, I would like to be able to quickly capture a thought, and then click on the action button to format it as I want. Here’s what I’m thinking:

Going from a draft with text (left) and after hitting an action button above they keyboard, turning the note into one like in the right.

Image
Image2260×2436 174 KB

I’ve been struggling to this and would love to know if any of you had any ideas.
Thanks a lot in advance! What an app!

2

Several ways to accomplish this…probably most straightforward if you are wanting to do it after you capture the text, would be a two step action. The first step a “Define Template Tag” step with the tag name template and following template:

[[date|%e %b, %Y]]

[[draft]]

That just creates a template that is the date, and the current content of the draft. Then in a script step:

draft.content = draft.processTemplate("[[template]]");
draft.update();

Which sets the text of the current draft to the new value as passed through the template.

1 Like
3

This worked great, thank you!

1 Like
4

Will this do a short date format? For example: 12-18-20

5

Yes. That example would be expressed like this [[date|%m-%d-%y]].

1 Like
6

If you’d like more detail on how formatting dates works, there’s a section on dates/times in this article on using templates: