Daily Inspirational Quote or Bible Verse Mindmap

[zsviczian]

Mindmapping engages your creativity by utilizing the full power of your visual brain. These two Templater scripts will create a mindmap of a random daily quote or a Bible Verse.

Please update your Obsidian Excalidraw plugin to 1.3.9 or higher before running this script.

You can insert these scripts into your daily notes template. Watch the YouTube video here.

The scripts work best if you also have Ozan's Image-in-Editor plugin installed.

The Bible Verse script will attempt to link the verse to your Bible in Obsidian, assuming that you are using Joschua's Bible Study in Obsidian Kit.

You can find the ExcalidrawAutomate documentation here.

Daily Quote

# Daily Reflections
<%*
const colors = ["Chocolate", "Coral", "CornflowerBlue", "CadetBlue", "DarkKhaki", "DarkOrange", "DarkCyan", "DarkSeaGreen", "DarkSalmon", "DeepSkyBlue", "Gainsboro", "GoldenRod", "Gold", "IndianRed", "Lavender", "LightGreen", "LightPink", "Linen", "MistyRose", "OliveDrab", "PaleTurquoise", "PaleVioletRed", "Peru", "Plum", "SandyBrown", "Silver", "Tan", "Tomato"];
const color = colors[Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length)];

let folder = app.vault.config.attachmentFolderPath;
if(folder && folder.startsWith("./")) { //subfolder of current file
  const cleanPath = folder.substring(2); //without the "./" at the beginning
  folder = tp.file.folder(true) === "/" ? cleanPath + "/" : tp.file.folder(true) + "/" + cleanPath + "/";
} 
const title = tp.file.title + " - Daily Quote";

const response = await fetch("https://quotes.rest/qod?language=en"); //http://api.quotable.io/random?"); //Add tags=inspirational,proverb to get quotes with specific tags. To list all available tags: http://api.quotable.io/tags?
if (response.ok) {
  const data = (await response.json()).contents.quotes[0];
  
  const ea = ExcalidrawAutomate;
  ea.reset();
  ea.style.backgroundColor = color;
  ea.setStrokeSharpness(0);
  //Try chaning "blob" to "box", "ellipse", "diamond", play with boxPadding and wrapAt values
  ea.addText(0,0,`${data.quote}\n[[${data.author}]]`,{wrapAt:40,textAlign:"center",box:"blob",boxPadding:90});
  const fpath = await ea.create({
    filename:title, 
	foldername:folder, 
	templatePath: app.plugins.getPlugin("obsidian-excalidraw-plugin").settings.templateFilePath,
	onNewPane: true,
	frontmatterKeys: {
	  "excalidraw-plugin": "parsed",
      "excalidraw-link-prefix": "",
 	  "excalidraw-link-brackets": true,
    }
  });
 
  tR += `![[${fpath}]]\n`;
} else {
  console.log("error",data);
}
%>

Daily Bible Verse

# Daily Reflections
<%*
const zeroPad = (num, places) => String(num).padStart(places, '0');
const getBibleRef = (book,chapter,verse) => {
  let i=2;
  const max = book.length;
  while(i<=max && !(f=app.metadataCache.getFirstLinkpathDest(`${book.substr(0,i)}-${zeroPad(chapter,2)}`,""))) {
    i++;
  }
  return f ? `[[${book.substr(0,i)}-${zeroPad(chapter,2)}#v${verse}|${book} ${chapter}:${verse}]]` : `[[${book} ${chapter}:${verse}]]`;
}

const colors = ["Chocolate", "Coral", "CornflowerBlue", "CadetBlue", "DarkKhaki", "DarkOrange", "DarkCyan", "DarkSeaGreen", "DarkSalmon", "DeepSkyBlue", "Gainsboro", "GoldenRod", "Gold", "IndianRed", "Lavender", "LightGreen", "LightPink", "Linen", "MistyRose", "OliveDrab", "PaleTurquoise", "PaleVioletRed", "Peru", "Plum", "SandyBrown", "Silver", "Tan", "Tomato"];
const color = colors[Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length)];

let folder = app.vault.config.attachmentFolderPath;
if(folder && folder.startsWith("./")) { //subfolder of current file
  const cleanPath = folder.substring(2); //without the "./" at the beginning
  folder = tp.file.folder(true) === "/" ? cleanPath + "/" : tp.file.folder(true) + "/" + cleanPath + "/";
} 
const title = tp.file.title + " - Bible Verse";

const response = await fetch("https://quotes.rest/bible/verse.json"); 
if (response.ok) {
  const data = (await response.json()).contents; 
  const bibleRef = getBibleRef(data.book,data.chapter,data.number);
  
  const ea = ExcalidrawAutomate;
  ea.reset();
  ea.style.backgroundColor = color;
  ea.setStrokeSharpness(0);
  //Try chaning "blob" to "box", "ellipse", "diamond", play with boxPadding and wrapAt values
  ea.addText(0,0,`${data.verse}\n${bibleRef}`,{wrapAt:40,textAlign:"center",box:"blob",boxPadding:90});
  const fpath = await ea.create({
    filename:title, 
	foldername:folder, 
	templatePath: app.plugins.getPlugin("obsidian-excalidraw-plugin").settings.templateFilePath,
	onNewPane: true,
	frontmatterKeys: {
	  "excalidraw-plugin": "parsed",
      "excalidraw-link-prefix": "",
 	  "excalidraw-link-brackets": true,
    }
  });
 
  tR += `![[${fpath}]]\n`;
} else {
  if(response.ok === false) {
    const data = await response.json(); 
    tR += "Bible Verse: " + data.error.message;
  } else {
    tR += "Bible Verse: Unknown error";
  }
}
%>

[zsviczian]

I made a few changes to the template. This is the version I currently use in my DNP:
There is one issue with Excalidraw Automate and sticky notes word wrapping, this will be corrected in 1.6.17

<%*
const colors = ["Chocolate", "Coral", "CornflowerBlue", "CadetBlue", "DarkKhaki", "DarkOrange", "DarkCyan", "DarkSeaGreen", "DarkSalmon", "DeepSkyBlue", "Gainsboro", "GoldenRod", "Gold", "IndianRed", "Lavender", "LightGreen", "LightPink", "Linen", "MistyRose", "OliveDrab", "PaleTurquoise", "PaleVioletRed", "Peru", "Plum", "SandyBrown", "Silver", "Tan", "Tomato"];
const color = colors[Math.floor(Math.random()*colors.length)];

let folder = app.vault.config.attachmentFolderPath;
if(folder && folder.startsWith("./")) { //subfolder of current file
  const cleanPath = folder.substring(2); //without the "./" at the beginning
  folder = tp.file.folder(true) === "/" ? cleanPath + "/" : tp.file.folder(true) + "/" + cleanPath + "/";
} 
const title = tp.file.title + " - Daily Quote";

//const response = await fetch("https://quotes.rest/qod?language=en"); 
const response = await fetch("http://api.quotable.io/random?tags=");  //Add tags=inspirational,proverb to get quotes with specific tags. To list all available tags: http://api.quotable.io/tags?
const data = await response.json();

if (response.ok) {
  //const data = (await response.json()).contents.quotes[0];
  
  const ea = ExcalidrawAutomate;
  ea.reset();
  ea.style.backgroundColor = "transparent"
  const textId = ea.generateElementId();
  const boxId = ea.addText(0,0,`${data.content}\n[[${data.author}]]`,{wrapAt:40,textAlign:"center",box:"box",boxPadding:10},textId);
  const box = ea.getElement(boxId);
  box.strokeColor = "transparent";
  ea.style.backgroundColor = color;
  ea.setStrokeSharpness(0);
  const blobId = ea.addBlob(-90,-90,box.width+180, box.height+180);

  //change z-order
  const text = ea.getElement(textId);
  delete ea.elementsDict[boxId];
  delete ea.elementsDict[textId];
  ea.elementsDict[box.id] = box;
  ea.elementsDict[text.id] = text;

  ea.addToGroup([blobId,boxId,textId]);
  const fpath = await ea.create({
    filename:title, 
	foldername:folder, 
	templatePath: app.plugins.getPlugin("obsidian-excalidraw-plugin").settings.templateFilePath,
	onNewPane: true,
	frontmatterKeys: {
	  "excalidraw-plugin": "parsed",
      "excalidraw-link-prefix": "",
 	  "excalidraw-link-brackets": true,
    }
  });

  tR += `![[${fpath}]]\n`;
  f = app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(fpath);
  console.log(await app.vault.read(f));
} else {
  console.log("error",data);
}
%>

[aeciolevy]

@zsviczian thank you so much; works perfectly.
Maybe out of Excalidraw scope, would be feasible to have a cronJob to run 23:59 where it would take my handwriting notes, and run the OCR to storage as metadata text from my notes, so that, they are searchable too?

[aeciolevy]

Also, I am a bit lost with templater syntax. The docs are good, but not many examples, I am trying to execute simple commands from obsidian-ics to import the events <%* app.commands.executeCommandById("ics-plugin:import_events") %> and it does not work 🤦🏼‍♂️
Where could I find more templater's examples?

[zsviczian]

Templater showcase: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater/discussions/categories/templates-showcase

I will build an Excalidraw Automate function that will take a list of files and do the OCR on them. You can then schedule your cornJob to run whenever you like.

[aeciolevy]

Thank you so much!!!!

[zsviczian]

I've updated my script. It now consists of two files. File 1) is my DNP Templater script. File 2) is the Excalidraw template file used by the script. This zip file contains both: DNP Template.zip

Change const templatePath = "Tools/Templates/attachments/DNP-Excalidraw-Template.md"; to reflect the location where you place the DNP-Excalidraw-Template.md file.

[zsviczian]

Here's my current
DNP Template.zip Templater script.

[zsviczian]

I've updated the template. It will now check 4 different sources in random order. Here's the new template:
DNP Template.md.zip