Templater VS ledger-obsidian

Obsidian has a large collection of community-contributed plugins to serve various user needs. For this guide, we'll install Templater and Tasks, two plugins that can be really powerful when combined to create notes and task lists.

I use the Templater plugin mostly for my newsletter and some other miscellaneous things not relevant here. I ended up making a "blog template" that I can use to quickly add the frontmatter I need!

Example templates

That said: - I assume you will be doing at least some highlighting / annotating of pdfs and / or websites. In that case, you might want to look into either plugins that automatically import your highlights from other tools (Zotero, Kindle or another e-ink device, Hypothes.is, Readwise, etc), or into plugins that allow for highlighting PDFs directly inside Obsidian (Obsidian Annotator). - Templater is useful for most folks that have to create many notes with repeated layout. If you have notes for each lesson, you could have a lesson note template, to create them faster and keep them consistent. - As a student, you have to keep track of your schedule when it comes to classes, exams, etc. - you could use a plugin to sync your existing Google calendar, or keep your calendar entirely in Obsidian (Full Calendar).

The tools I use: Arc Browser - Nothing special here, I am just enjoying this browser right now. Dropzone - Used to automate the screenshots iScreenshoter - My screenshot app of choice even though the misspelling gives me hives. Dataview Plugin Templater Plugin Quick Add Plugin

Don't worry if you're template isn't perfect. It can always be modified. I modified a template this morning that I created eight months ago. It needed a little tweak. Documentation: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater

I totally understand the learning curve. I was there too, for sure. The syntax you've pointed out are both part of the Templater extension. It's a fantastic extension and well worth the effort in learning, by the way. I'd recommend looking at the guide the author provided for the extension (https://silentvoid13.github.io/Templater/).

I spent another couple hours writing an elaborate script that creates new notes based on a set of conditions, but that also turned out to be a waste of time due to another documented bug with Templater itself.

I can add https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian to the list, which was very close to what I was looking for but in the end didn't fit my workflow

It's that time of the year when I see if I could replace my existing Notion-setup completely with Obsidian. Am currently tackling expense tracking, and Obsidian has a plugin just for this: Obsidian Ledger. Now, problem is that adding entries to the ledger while on the go is tedious, as the quick entry does not work properly on the mobile. So I would like to build a shortcut to handle this. And I have one built, where it asks for the expense name, amount, expense account and asset account. It takes each of those entires, adds current date, and then it should append all of that to the end of the transactions.ledger-file in my Obsidian Vault. Sounds simple enough. But what would be the best way to to that last step?

GitHub Repo/Demo: https://github.com/tgrosinger/ledger-obsidian