How to use current file name in QA

[brimwats]

I'd like to use the current file name, usually the name of a project, in the creation of a new note.

For example I'm on a project called Thesis, and I want to make a note with the file name format of 2023-08-22--Thesis--Meeting with the Meeting Template in the same folder as the current folder.

I've tried this a few ways and it doesn't work, but I think I'm misunderstanding. I've tried to create a template with file name format as {{DATE}}--{{FIELD}} Meeting Minutes in the hope that it would suggest fields like the documentation says. I've also tried {{DATE}}--{{FIELD:alias}} Meeting Minutes, I've also tried {{DATE}} {{NAME} (but def am using those wrong).

I also tried making a macro that would copy the file name, run the meeting template and then editor command paste into the file name format of {{DATE}}--{{VALUE}} but no luck there as well. Any suggestions?

[jimbo108108]

I've got the same question. I'd like to make a macro that prompts for and creates the folder name and then creates the file with the same name in the folder.

[chhoumann]

Very late answer - sorry about that.

The token you were reaching for exists now: {{FILENAMECURRENT}} (shipped in QuickAdd 2.6.0) resolves to the active file's name. Your Thesis example becomes a Template choice with this File Name Format:

{{DATE}}--{{FILENAMECURRENT}}--Meeting

Run it while the Thesis note is open and you get 2023-08-22--Thesis--Meeting. For the location, set the Template choice's folder mode to Same folder as current file and the note lands next to the active one.

@jimbo108108: folder paths accept format syntax too, and missing folders are created automatically. Use the same variable in the folder path and the File Name Format, and one prompt fills both:

• Folder: Projects/{{VALUE:project}}
• File Name Format: {{VALUE:project}}

Docs: https://quickadd.obsidian.guide/docs/FormatSyntax#filenamecurrent

Closing as resolved.

[brimwats]

thank-you!!