I love the Daily Journal template. I’m using it and planning on moving things out of Day One and into DevonThink and both moving away from a proprietary format and an additional subscription.
I’ve managed to move a copy of the template into the toolbar folder and add that to the toolbar so that I can easily press the button to add to my daily log.
But if I don’t have my “Personal” database highlighted in the sidebar, the template creates a new entry in whatever database I’ve been using last when I press the toolbar button.
I don’t know very much about apple scripting. I’d like to modify the properties of the DNtp variable so that the button creates in my “Personal” database which lives in my user/database/ folder. Could someone tell me how to do that? I’ve tried guessing and adding to the script, but it’s not working.
Thanks.
I’m not sure which script you mean. When I look at the source of the Journal entry template, I see only three RTF files (for English, French and German). And according to the documentation, this template is text-only, not script based.
Edit: I think I found what you’re referring to: Productivity/Journal? In that case, these two lines in the script might be of relevance
set myGroup to create location "/Journal/" & "/" & theYear & "/" & numMonth
set recordName to theYear & "-" & numMonth & "-" & theDay & " " & shortWeekday
From you post, I understand that the “Journal” group should always be located in your database “Personal”.
So
set myGroup to create location "/Journal/" & "/" & theYear & "/" & numMonth in database "Personal"
If you don’t like the name of the newly created record, you’d have to change the second line I quoted.
Disclaimer: I took this code verbatim from a script @pete31 posted some time ago. Since I’m not an AppleScript afficionado, I might have gotten that wrong.
You might want to check DT’s scripting dictionary in the Script Editor – always a good point of reference for scripting questions.
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Bless you - that’s worked perfectly. I didn’t know I need to append the location line with “in database”
Made the change you suggested and it worked exactly like I wanted it to work.
Hi chrillek,
I would like to change the location of the designated location for daily journal RTFs as well.
I do not know how to script, so forgive me if I cannot see the difference between the commands you’ve displayed.
If I wanted to have each daily journal RTF located in a specific group, would I just replace the "/Journal/" with "/insert chosen group name/" ?
Would changing the default location be that easy?
It’s not my script, but that should work.
Yes that would be possible.
thank you for your replies. I tried it once, but it did not work. Perhaps I edited the wrong file (I tried editing the template file from the productivity folder).
I will try again. I just thought I’d show curtesy first and respond.
Thank you
Make sure you copy the template first so you can preserve the original.