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Found the commonality for the files that are getting moved -

Regex on line 106 doesn't take into account the new .md extension for files. Later on, in rewrite_files (line 666), any rewritten daily note gets moved to Notes if you're using the .md extension.

# Now make a title for this file:
**if @filename =~ /\d{8}\.txt/**
  # for Calendar file, use the date from filename
  @title = @filename[0..7]
  @is_calendar = true
else
  # otherwise use first line (but take off heading characters at the start and starting and ending whitespace)
  tempTitle = @lines[0].gsub(/^#+\s*/, '')
  @title = tempTitle.gsub(/\s+$/, '')
  @is_calendar = false
end

end

Infinite loop occurs on Warning: can't find find matching note for [[P29...]] at line 314

When processing Birthdays, got this error:

Error in calc_offset_date from 2020-08-02 by 1y

When npTools files (moves) items from daily notes, it currently:

• inserts at HEADER_LINE (for notes)
• appends (for daily notes).

This action is about making the filing location smarter.

For daily notes I propose:

• at the end of a section that starts with a user-specified heading (e.g. "Tasks")
• otherwise at the end of the first run of lines (terminated by a blank line)

For non-daily notes I propose:

• at the end of a section that starts with a user-specified heading (e.g. "Inbox")
• after a formal YAML frontmatter section and before first heading
• after an informal frontmatter section etc. (defined to be after consecutive lines starting with a # or after a second --- or first ... line or after Attribute:: or tag:: lines).

I've discovered many empty calendar files, probably as a result of adding and removing repeating tasks.
These empty ones could be removed.

NotePlan 2 does have a way of getting tasks to repeat, but it's not obvious to use, and difficult to update.

I propose adding my own using @repeat(interval) on tasks, that gets activated when a task is completed. It would work in one of two ways:

1. When interval is of the form +2w it will duplicate the task for 2 weeks' after the date is was completed.
2. When interval is of the form 2w it will duplicate the task for 2 weeks after the date the task was last due. If this can't be determined, then default to the first option.

Valid intervals are [0-9][dwmqy].

Template date of {0d} isn't getting updated when others in the same section are.

Probably an unusual case, but the fix is on line 692 - add || n.zero? so the loop makes it back to the first entry in the array.

later_header_level = this_header_level = 0
at_eof = 1
while n.positive? || n.zero?
  line = @lines[n]
  # find header lines

Extend to allow creation of new events in Apple Calendar when the #create_event tag is used on a line (task, comment or heading). It would use the existing timeblocking syntax (either at 8[-11][AM|PM] or 3:00[-4:00][AM|PM]) but doesn't just show time on the NotePlan calendar, but make a proper event.

For example, this would allow for meeting events to be listed in a daily note, and also created in the calendar, for example:

### Project X Meeting #create_event 10-11am

In combination with the date offset patterns above, it further allows scheduling preparation time days or hours before events, for example:

### Project X Meeting #create_event 10-11am
* write agenda {-5d} #create_event 9:00-9:30

Going to try to find some time to look at this one myself, but figured I should get it on the radar.

A meeting header (from my icalBuddy script) at EOF isn't removed if that meeting doesn't result in any notes.

It may help others users to make some of the functions optional (e.g. stripping time components, or adding calendar date when moving to notes).

From NotePlan v2.5, notes can be stored in folders. Add the ability to find and clean notes in these folders, excluding @archive and @trash folders.

If a user has made settings changes by tweaking the variables at the top of npTools.rb they are lost when installing a new version. I should move the settings out to a separate JSON file, to avoid this step.

For file including

* [ ] Weekly waste collections in Basingstoke and Deane are set to resume from Monday 17 August [[Admin (Home)]] >2020-08-16

This --moreverbose output:

Cleaning file id 0 20200723
  remove_empty_tasks ...
  remove_empty_trailing_lines ...
  - removed 1 empty lines
  remove_tags_dates ...
  process_repeats ...
  move_calendar_to_notes ...
  - found note link [[Admin (Home)]] in task on line 3 of 4
  - starting task analysis at line 3 with indent '' (0)
Traceback (most recent call last):
	3: from /Users/jonathan/bin/npTools:760:in `<main>'
	2: from /Users/jonathan/bin/npTools:760:in `each'
	1: from /Users/jonathan/bin/npTools:766:in `block in <main>'
/Users/jonathan/bin/npTools:236:in `move_calendar_to_notes': undefined method `scan' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)

In this example:

* [ ] A task to do for project note [[Test Note]]
  - and some notes
  > and a quote
  * [x] and a completed sub-task
* [ ] another task

Move the first four lines, not just the first line, to the [[Test Note]] note.

I like to use the ## Done section sporadically. It'd be nice if there was an option flag to disable this. I have the piece of code that needs to be changed, but I'm not 100% familiar with Ruby to add an option.

• Add option conditional around lines 283-420

The NP developer said (Reddit, 18.8.2020) that it's planned to add support for .md file extensions not just .txt. Therefore my scripts need to support this as well.

@kennonb says, "I'm in the US and so my Time preferences are for a 12-hour clock. NotePlan therefore formats my @done tags as @done(YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM AM). This change should allow for either 12-hour or 24-hour time strings."

And has provided pull #13 to this effect.

It's now failing to move items to notes which are now in sub-folders.
Raises a related question: how does NP know which sub-folder is implied if there are multiple notes with the same [[Title]] in a reference?

Following recent discussion in the NotePlan Discord, we felt it would be good to extend npTools' repeat mechanism to include weekdays (b) not just days (d).

NB: For now this will not include any attempt to understand or implement bank or public holidays. At least in the UK, I'm not aware of any way to calculate these holidays; they are set by a group of people and then disseminated.

Need to make Archiving smart to move subheads and their contents as well - Or is the better archiving now introduced in v2.4.4 enough?

Some earlier jottings:

# Spec for subheads etc.
# Read all into a more detailed data structure and then write out?
#  - Title line
#  - 1 or 2 metadata lines, starting with #tag or Aim:
#  - open section
#    - (opt) Heading line
#      - (opt) Sub-heading
#        - (opt) Task
#        - indented lines of comment or bullet or just text
#  - done section ('#[#] Done') -- to include cancelled, unlike NP built-in behaviour
#    - as above

I found that in order to see a running list of completed tasks in the Filters, I have to keep the scheduled text on the completed tasks. It'd be nice if there was an option flag to disable this. I have the piece of code that needs to be changed, but I'm not 100% familiar with Ruby to add an option.

• Add option conditional around lines 136-140

If there is a

## Heading for [[Note]]
* task 1
  * sub-task 2
  - notes
  > comments

then move all these 5 lines to the [[Note]]. In fact take all children up to the next heading or blank line.

Also remove:

1. empty header lines (i.e. has #s but no non-whitespace)
2. empty header sections (i.e. no content after this header and before header of same or higher level (fewer #s))

This is at the request of @BMStroh on the Discord forum for NotePlan 3.

NotePlan has its own @repeat feature that only allows for 1/n repeats. It would make sense to include this use case in with the more advanced repeat feature already implemented here.

See this Reddit discussion for more details.

When moving a * task with a [[note title]] in it should also add the relevant date.
Either a >2020-04-04 specific due date, or the date of the calendar day the task started in.

NotePlan from v3.0 can use CloudKit for storage, not just iCloud Drive or Dropbox. Need to update this script to allow for CloudKit.

In other user testing it turns out the create event doesn't work if the "Languages & Region" setting is set to 12-Hour not 24-Hour time. In further testing of the AppleScript, it seems that date-time strings ending "12:34 am" or "12:34PM" (etc.) work in either context but strings ending "12:34:00" (as it does so far) or "12:34" only works with 24-hour setting.

NotePlan has several options for how to mark a task, including - . At the moment this script only allows for * . Ideally this would be configurable.