Hi,
I use apple shortcuts to generate a daily note for myself each morning. Each time I run the shortcut, I first check to see if I’ve already created a daily note that day – if so, I load up the day’s note. If not, I create a new one.
However, I’m struggling to figure out the best way to search to see if a note already exists. I would like to simply use an x-callback url query to open the note by title (all my daily notes are titled with the date in a particular format). But if /open-note doesn’t find a matching note, it just errors out and stops the shortcut from processing. I’ve tried using a custom x-error to catch errors, but it still errors out as if I haven’t set x-error. If I try to manually set x-error by selecting “custom callback” in shortcuts and entering the same x-error URL into Error Key, the shortcut hangs until I manually cut out.
Here’s the format I’m using:
bear://x-callback-url/open-note?title=NOTHERE&x-error=shortcuts://x-callback-url/run-shortcut?name=test-error
All I’ve found that works is searching for my properly formatted title using /search. But that searches the entire body my notes. That’s not just inefficient – if that date happens to be repeated anywhere else, it will mistake that random note for my note. In addition, I’ve found that /search doesn’t limit itself to only the exact string you search for, so if I search for “August 23, 2023” it will match on a note titled “August 22, 2023” because it finds “August” and “23” in the title.
Am I missing something? Has anyone seen a better way to handle looking for a specific note?
Thank you for any help or guidance!
N
