This script may not be of use to many people, but I’m finding it so handy today that I figured I’d post it in the hopes that someone who needs it finds it. It’s really only useful to people who use VoodooPad to keep a journal or log with a page for each date, and all it does is jump to the current day’s page. Simple, but useful.
I’m using Ian Beck’s VoodooPad Scratchpad scripts, and have been for over a year. I won’t go into detail on the inner workings (I’m hoping to post a little more about them on TUAW soon), but the end result is a very well-connected log of what I’ve done, what I’ve found and what I’ve learned each day. Navigating them isn’t difficult, but once you’ve run it for a year or more, you end up with a lot of very similarly named pages (2010-09-xx, etc.). I’m sure this is the case for anyone who’s logging or journaling in VoodooPad, and if you’ve ever scrolled for more than a few seconds just to find the page for today, here’s your (über-simple) answer.
--[[
VPLanguage = lua
VPScriptMenuTitle = Go to Today
VPShortcutKey = g
VPShortcutMask = command control
VPEndConfig
--]]
document = windowController:document()
pageName = os.date("%Y-%m-%d", os.time())
document:openPageWithTitle(pageName)You’ll want to edit the line with os.date() in it to match the format of your date-named pages. Then just save it as gototoday.lua in your Script Plugins folder (~/Library/Application Support/VoodooPad/Script Plugins). Restart VoodoPad and the shortcut Control-Command-G will jump to the current day. It’s not smart, though, and if you don’t have a page for the current day, it’s going to make one. That could be good or bad, depending on your system.
I also wrote a script page within my scratchpad (called Today) that jumps to the current day instead of itself when you open it. It seems like one of those things that I just did to see if I could, and not worth troubling the internets with. If you’re interested in it, ping me.
