my-first-noteplan-plugin

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slug: my-first-noteplan-plugin title: My First NotePlan Plugin description: 'Learning to develop NotePlan plugins for note management, templates, and frontmatter automation.' authors: [oeid] tags: [noteplan, plugin, note-taking, automation, templates, learning] date: 2025-03-02T10:00 draft: true

🏡250302👨🏻‍💻 Build a Noteplan Plugin

• Noteplan add shortcuts for /thisweek in my plugin ... >2025-W12

• There is tooling to help build proper plugin ...

  • Should I migrate my script over?

• Make a noteplan plugin to help with the emoji picking / templates / front mater creation / etc ...

  • Can I get the dir of a note ...
  • Can I set front matter attributes?
  • https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/main/dwertheimer.DateAutomations/plugin.json

• Example of creating a new note ... and getting user input ... and doing front matter

  • https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/main/jgclark.NoteHelpers/src/newNote.js#L21
  • https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/tree/main/helpers
    • https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/main/helpers/userInput.js
    • https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/main/helpers/NPFrontMatter.js

• Arguments are only useful if plugin called from other plugin ...

• Make various shortcuts to update front matter ..

  • Make /cancel-plan
  • Make /done-plan

• https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/main/Flow_Guide.md

• https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/tree/b728b13f6cebf24651b8e6dcc190893a8352a439?tab=readme-ov-file

• https://github.com/NotePlan/plugins/blob/b728b13f6cebf24651b8e6dcc190893a8352a439/helpers/NPFrontMatter.js#L834

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• Noteplan is pretty powerful ... can make notes from a command, send to chat gpt to reorganizr a note, etc ...

• Create command to create a new Personal Plan

• New work plan ...

• New personal habit, etc

• Add a reference

• Use noteplan to record a log of the quran ive done trough the plugin ...

• It should auto add to google drivr tracker? I should have data at the page level .... maybe even a shortcut or button I press??

• Good genai use case to determine hofz? certain things I want to log in a special way to see if I do it frequently

newBlogPost noteplan helper ... Release: npm run release "omars-lab.PlanningBuddy" noteplan://x-callback-url/runPlugin?pluginID=omars-lab.PlanningBuddy&command=sayHello

Look into noteplan templates instead for some of this?

documentation: https://help.noteplan.co/article/237-frontmatter documentation: https://help.noteplan.co/article/148-run-javascript-code-in-your-templates https://noteplan.co/templates/docs https://noteplan.co/templates/docs/templating-examples-prompt

• I should use templates for the content ... and the move command to move it to the right folder based on the frontmatter ...