Macro: Change properties in your daily notes

This macro lists every property in today’s daily journal note in a menu. Pick one, type a new value, and the macro writes it back - a quick way to update a property without opening the note or editing frontmatter by hand.

Before you start

• Today’s daily journal note must exist, and the property you want to change must already be in its frontmatter; the menu only lists existing properties, and only text, number and checkbox ones.
• The Daily notes core plugin turned on, or a custom Daily note path in the script settings (step 4).

Setup

Imported the package above? The script and the Change daily note property macro are already in place; skip to step 4 to check its settings, then run it.

1. Download changeDailyProperty.js and save it somewhere in your vault (not inside the .obsidian folder). See the user scripts guide for how QuickAdd loads scripts.
2. In Settings → QuickAdd, click New choice → Macro. The Macro Builder opens; click its name at the top to rename it (for example, Change property). See the Macro choice docs for a full walkthrough.
3. In the Macro Builder, add your script as a User Script command.
4. Click the cog on the script step. Leave Daily note path empty to use the Daily notes plugin’s folder and date format, or set it to where your daily notes live, with their date format, for example bins/daily/{{DATE:YYYY-MM-DD - ddd MMM D}}.md.

Run the macro, choose a property from the menu, and enter its new value. If the old value was a number or true/false and the new text still is one, it is written back as a number or boolean; otherwise as text. List properties such as tags are not offered, since a one-line prompt cannot edit them.

If you already know which properties you want to change and don’t want to be asked about the rest, edit the script and replace keys with a plain array of property names. You’d pass that array to the suggester method instead.