On a side note I am also noodling about recreating what I’m doing in shortcuts as root scripts like I used to do with Frontier and its object databases.
Now onto nested subs and image attributes!
Turns out it was a nested if/end in my main shortcut causing the issue because of how I was putting my debug alerts in nested if/end blocks as well! 😱
This is a final line test.
After further testing it appears that my “function” shortcut isn’t getting called at all when the alerts are turned off. Almost like a timing issue!
Ran into some issues with creating a “function” shortcut to handle looping through the subs in the Drummer JSON. If I put in some debug alerts it runs fine but if I disable them it doesn’t do the final sub in my test.
I also need to figure out how to handle Drummer images in Obsidian.
I have gotten the basic daily outline working in Obsidian! 😃 Now I have to work on how to build a subroutine in Shortcuts to loop through looking for subs.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
I also need to figure out how to handle Drummer images in Obsidian. And this is a nested test for my checkSubs function.
I’m starting to believe that I’m wasting my time getting outline mode working in Obsidian.
This line is a sub of the previous text but is showing up flat in Obsidian. Time to start digging!
And another sub with additinal text to make it wrap around. And another sub with additinal text to make it wrap around. And another sub with additinal text to make it wrap around.
Another sub test.
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Wednesday, November 3, 2021
Another sub test. And still another sub test. Another one bites the dust
Continuing work on my Drummer/Obsidian/Shortcuts integration focusing on the Mac today. I have come to realize that my shortcut I am using from the Services menu doesn’t honor multiple levels of my outline so when I send the data over to Obsidian it is flat which for archiving purposes is fine but it would be cool if I could recreate the outline in Obsidian.
For some reason my micro.blog site isn't updating as fast as it used to but I don't know if it is related to E/D or something else. The posts show up in the micro.blog dashboard but not on my actual site so it must be a micro.blog issue.
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
This is a different test for handling 1 nested level.
For some reason my micro.blog site isn’t updating as fast as it used to but I don’t know if it is related to E/D or something else. The posts show up in the micro.blog dashboard but not on my actual site so it must be a micro.blog issue.
I am exploring using Electric Drummer for my work with integrating my outlines with my Obsidian enviornment. What’s very cool is using url schemes in Electric Drummer do not trigger any security dialogs like Safari and Chrome! This could lead to some very cool capabilities on the Mac! I have many “automation tools” I currently use on the Mac including Shortcuts, AppleScript, Python and Node-Red.
Now fighting an iPad version of the shortcut not working properly!
I like where this is heading integrating Drummer with Obsidian. I’ve got a shortcut that I call from the Services menu that takes the data for a particular day and creates a file in Obsidian with the same date in the microblog folder.
I’m starting to believe that I’m wasting my time getting outline mode working in Obsidian.