[Help] How to list the daily notes only

[idr4n]

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My daily notes are in the directory journal/daily and in the command line I can list/edit them with zk edit -i journal/daily.

How can I do this inside Neovim? I tried with the ZkNotes command but it does not accept an argument for the group or the options dictionary does not accept a dir field either. I guess I can achieve something similar with tags or match, but would like to know if there is the equivalent to zk edit -i journal/daily in the command line.

Thanks in advance for the help!

[idr4n]

Using the API, I came out with this solution:

    local commands = require("zk.commands")

    commands.add("ZkDir", function(options)
      options = options or {}
      local dir = options.dir or "journal/daily"

      require("zk.api").list(nil, {
        select = { "absPath", "path", "title", "created", "modified" },
      }, function(err, notes)
        if err then
          vim.notify("Error fetching notes: " .. vim.inspect(err), vim.log.levels.ERROR)
          return
        end

        -- Filter notes after retrieval and ensure valid paths
        local filtered_notes = {}
        for _, note in ipairs(notes) do
          -- Check both that path exists and matches our directory
          if note.path and type(note.path) == "string" and string.match(note.path, dir .. "/") then
            table.insert(filtered_notes, note)
          end
        end

        if #filtered_notes == 0 then
          vim.notify("No notes found in directory", vim.log.levels.INFO)
          return
        end

        -- sort filtered notes
        table.sort(filtered_notes, function(a, b)
          return a.created > b.created
        end)

        -- Use the picker to display filtered results
        require("zk.ui").pick_notes(filtered_notes, { title = "Journal Notes" }, function(selected_notes)
          if selected_notes and #selected_notes > 0 then
            for _, note in ipairs(selected_notes) do
              vim.cmd("edit " .. note.absPath)
            end
          end
        end)
      end)
    end)

Then I can use :ZkDir :ZkDir { dir = 'journal/weekly' } to list only my daily or weekly notes.

If there is a simpler approach though, would love to hear about it.

[tjex]

The key you want is hrefs (I know it's not a descriptive name, considering it semantically means "path").

https://zk-org.github.io/zk/tips/editors-integration.html#zk-list

[idr4n]

That's great! Yes, it worked 👍. Now I can get rid of my own implementation then. Thanks for referencing this out!