Obsidian - Daily Note + Random Review

I’ve been dutifully collecting notes in Obsidian for a while now, but the idea of going through and cleaning them all up was daunting. There are hundreds of notes that are just copy/pasted from other sources, screenshots of interesting things or rough notes on a topic.

Then I was reading about how you can use Periodic Notes to generate daily notes in Obsidian when I stumbled across this post from Michelle Mac. It showed how you can generate a list of random notes based on a tag.

I use tags in the page front matter rather than inline hashtags, so I needed to rework the logic a little. I also don’t keep all my notes in the same “Evergreen” folder, so I needed different logic for the filename.

Here’s what I ended up with. It generates a list of three posts when it runs. If you want to use it, change the values in allowedTags to source whichever pages you need:

js
<%*
	const randomNotes = [];
	const allowedTags = ["stub", "unedited"];
    app.metadataCache.getCachedFiles().forEach(filename => {
	    let data = app.metadataCache.getCache(filename);
	    if (!data.frontmatter) {
		    return;
	    }
	    const tags = (data.frontmatter.tags || []).filter(t => allowedTags.indexOf(t) !== -1)
	    if (tags.length > 0) {
			const p = filename.split("/");
			const f = p[p.length-1].split(".md")[0];
			randomNotes.push(f);
	    }
	});
    var i = 0
    do {
        const randomIndex = Math.floor(Math.random() * randomNotes.length);
        tR += `- [[${randomNotes[randomIndex]}]]` + "\n"
        i++
    } while (i<3);
%>