Actions for Obsidian › Actions › Check For Periodic Note

Queries Obsidian for the existence of the current Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly Note. Returns YES or NO, tailor-made for an “If” block.

Note

”Periodic Note” is a collective term for Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Yearly Notes.

Working with Daily Notes requires either the core Daily Notes plugin or the community plugin, Periodic Notes. Working with Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Yearly Notes requires the community plugin Periodic Notes.

Parameters

Vault

The vault to work in.

Type: Vault reference

Periodic Note Type

Options:

• Daily Note
• Weekly Note
• Monthly Note
• Quarterly Note
• Yearly Note

Return Value

Boolean (YES/NO)

Examples

If you wanted to test whether today’s Daily Note exists in a vault called “Testbed”, you’d set the vault parameter to Testbed . This would be followed by a built-in “If” action that checks the result of the “Check For Existence…” block – a positive result means “note exists”, a negative “note doesn’t exist”.

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