Create title on save

[guilhermeprokisch]

Hey,

I've got a bit of a workflow quirk when it takes notes in Obsidian. I prefer jotting down the main content first and coming up with a title afterwards. Saves me from getting hung up on naming things upfront.

So here's what I'm hoping to sort out:

Is there a way to have prompt for a title only when I'm about to save the note?

Even better - if my note already has a main header (like a top-level H1), could just automatically use that as the title and skip the prompt altogether?

I appreciate any suggestions or config tweaks that could help make this happen!

[epwalsh]

Hey @guilhermeprokisch, you could get this behavior by adding a custom pre_write_note callback to your obsidian.nvim config:

      callbacks = {
        -- Runs right before writing the buffer for a note.
        ---@param client obsidian.Client
        ---@param note obsidian.Note
        ---@diagnostic disable-next-line: unused-local
        pre_write_note = function(client, note)
          local util = require "obsidian.util"

          if not note.title then
            local title = util.input "Enter title: "
            if not title or string.len(title) == 0 then
              return
            end

            note.title = title
            local insert_at = 0
            if note.frontmatter_end_line ~= nil then
              insert_at = note.frontmatter_end_line + 1
            end
            vim.api.nvim_buf_set_lines(0, insert_at, insert_at, false, { "# " .. title })
          end
        end,
      },