Most idiomatic way of getting multiple inputs

[matthewturk]

Hi! I'm working on trying to capture little snippets of information to different categories chosen from a particular list of items. So for instance, "Topic A", "Topic B" etc. I'd like to append each of these to my daily note with a time/date stamp, and also to use metadata tagging for use with dataview. Basically, what this means is that I want to have two inputs -- one for the category (which could be a suggester, but I'm fine with free text if need be) and one for the content.

What I'm not sure about is the "right" way to do this. I think I can see a few different possibilities, but as I look at them, it feels like I'm not quite getting the best way to do it using QuickAdd.

1. Add an individual capture for each category, with identical settings for where to place the text but different metadata, and put all of these under a multi-choice.
2. Write a user-defined function that provides a suggester (and input) and then returns a JSON object, which I would then access via {{VALUE.category}} and {{VALUE.content}} or something similar, and have a step in the macro being to call the capture. Call the macro directly.
3. Evaluate a {{MACRO}} in a capture.

I'm still getting myself accustomed to quickadd, but I couldn't find any explicit examples of how to do this. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[chhoumann]

Hey @matthewturk!

There are a few ways to do this. The ones you've mentioned are very valid ways.
I'd say that your approach depends on your use-case.
For example, you can spawn a suggester with {{VALUE:A,B,C}}, which opens a suggester like this one:

But the catch is that you can't access the chosen value again. This is where you'd instead use some script to open a suggester and save it to a variable, which you could access like {{VALUE:category}}.

[Gaaruda]

@chhoumann I want to acess the names of the files in particular folder as option, please help