In addition to the iOS shortcut to post from my phone, I also set up a VS Code snippet that generates the Zola frontmatter each post needs when I want to post from my desktop computer. The snippet is as follows:
"zolaPost": {
"prefix": "zolaPost", // the prefix is what you type in and hit tab in order to trigger the snippet to generate the frontmatter
"scope": "markdown", // what file type should this snippet be enabled for
"body": [ // the contents of the snippet
"+++",
"title = \"${TM_FILENAME/[0-9]+-[0-9]+-[0-9]+[ ](.*).md$/$1/}\" ", // this monstrosity takes in the filename using a built-in variable TM_FILENAME and then captures the title out of it
"date = ${CURRENT_YEAR}-${CURRENT_MONTH}-${CURRENT_DATE}T${CURRENT_HOUR}:${CURRENT_MINUTE}:${CURRENT_SECOND}${CURRENT_TIMEZONE_OFFSET}", // generates an ISO datetime
"authors = [\"sarksus\"]",
"[taxonomies]",
"tags = [$2]", // this is a tabstop, when the snippet is generated I can hit tab to move around these locations and type in whatever I want
"+++"
],
"description": "zolaPost"
}
Note that tab-completions have to be enabled in VS Code to work with this.
This is the frontmatter that was generated from the 2024-10-13 Zola Post Snippet.md file:
+++
title = "Zola Post Snippet"
date = 2024-10-13T00:35:07-04:00
authors = ["sarksus"]
[taxonomies]
tags = ["Site"]
+++
So I create a new post file, type zolaPost and hit tab and it generates the frontmatter, I fill in the tags and then tab out to the end and write my post!
Note to self, I need to update the code block theming so it matches my site theme better. This is the first time using it and the default theme doesn't match very well.
