Just wanted to a share a dataview/templater combo I'm using to create notes from events.

[The1029]

Introduction

This combo creates a table view of events in your daily note with clickable links to create notes on demand. I use this when attending conferences/meetings to take notes in Obsidian.

If you already have notes in the "description" field in your calendar, these will be pulled into the body of the note at the time that it's created. The templater setup "fails gracefully", so if you create a fresh event in Obsidian without pulling from a calendar, it will give you blank fields instead of errors.

Be Aware: This simply creates a note and pulls in the data once, it is not a two-way sync. Updates to event times/descriptions made in Obsidian will not be reflected in your calendar, and vice-versa. If you make changes in your calendar and want them reflected in Obsidian, you will either have to do this manually, or delete the note and create it again.

Obligatory disclaimer: it works on my machine! I hope you don't run into issues, but if it doesn't work please ensure you have everything setup as described below. This assumes you have some knowledge of JavaScript, as well as Templater and Dataview. If you don't, you should! Please check their docs and YouTube for tutorials. I accept no responsibility for any loss of data/problems you run into - test in a fresh vault first if you're unsure.

Setup

You will need to create an Events folder if you don't already have one. You'll also need to create a template called event.md. If you'd rather use different names/locations, just edit the code below to point to your destinations of choice.

In Templater, you'll need to enable Folder templates, and set one up so that any new notes created in your Events folder use the event.md template.

In the ICS settings, set your time format to YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm like this:

This is the default format expected by moment.js.

You will also need to have javascript queries enabled in Dataview, if you don't already.

Notes Content

Place this where you want it in your daily note. If your daily template is not called daily, change the value in the first if statement. See moment.js docs for more info on how to modify date formats.

// Prevents a bunch of errors every time you open your daily template - change `'daily'` to whatever your template is called.
if (dv.current().file.name === 'daily') {
  dv.el('div', 'Editing template...');
  return;
}

const events = await app.plugins.getPlugin('ics').getEvents(dv.current().file.name);
let parsedEvents = [];

events.forEach(e => {
  let calendar = e.icsName;
  let startDate = moment(e.time);
  let endDate = moment(e.endTime);

  let start = '';
  let end = '';

  // Checks if all day event, formats appropriately.
  // If you want to format things differently, you can do so here.
  if (startDate.format('HH:mm') === '00:00' && endDate.format('HH:mm') === '00:00') {
    
    // Formatting for all-day events - I have chosen to hide time of day for these.
    start = startDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD');
    end = endDate.subtract(1, 'days').format('YYYY-MM-DD');
  } else {
    // Formatting for timed events.
    start = startDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD - HH:mm');
    end = endDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD - HH:mm');
  }
  
  // You can edit this line to change the folder structure new events are created under. Please see the moment.js documentation.
  let title = dv.fileLink(`Events/${startDate.format('YYYY')}/${startDate.format('MM-MMM')}/${startDate.format('YYYY-MM-DD')} - ${e.summary}`, false, e.summary);

  parsedEvents.push({
    title,
    start,
    end,
    calendar
  });
});

dv.table(
  ["Event", "Start", "End", "Calendar"],
  parsedEvents.map(e => [
	  e.title,
	  e.start,
	  e.end,
	  e.calendar
  ])
);

And place this in your event.md template. I use type: event in my metadata, but if you prefer tags you can modify appropriately.

<%*
if (moment(tp.file.title.substring(0, 10),'YYYY-MM-DD').format('YYYY-MM-DD') === tp.file.title.substring(0, 10)) {
	const events = await app.plugins.getPlugin('ics').getEvents(moment(tp.file.title.substring(0, 10),'YYYY-MM-DD'));
	
	const thisEvent = events.filter(e => e.summary === tp.file.title.substring(13))[0];
	
	const location = thisEvent.location ? thisEvent.location.replaceAll('\n', ', ') : '';

        const description = thisEvent.description ? thisEvent.description : '';
	
	const startDate = moment(thisEvent.time);
	const endDate = moment(thisEvent.endTime);
	
	let start = '';
	let end = '';
	// Check if all day event, format appropriately.
        // DO NOT change the formatting here - this is what Obsidian expects for DateTime fields.
	if (startDate.format('HH:mm') === '00:00' && endDate.format('HH:mm') === '00:00') {
		start = startDate.format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss');
		end = endDate.subtract(1, 'minute').format('YYYY-MM-DDT:HH:mm:ss');
	} else {
		start = startDate.format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss');
		end = endDate.format('YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss');
	}
	
	if (thisEvent) {
		tR += '---\n';
		tR += 'type: event\n';
		tR += `calendar: ${thisEvent.icsName}\n`
		tR += `start-date: ${start}\n`;
		tR += `end-date: ${end}\n`;
		tR += `location: ${location}\n`;
		tR += '---\n\n';
		tR += description;
	} else {
		tR += '---\n';
		tR += 'type: event\n';
		tR += `calendar: obsidian\n`;
		tR += `start-date: \n`;
		tR += `end-date: \n`;
		tR += `location: \n`;
		tR += '---\n\n';
	}
} else {
	tR += '---\n';
	tR += 'type: event\n';
	tR += `calendar: obsidian\n`;
	tR += `start-date: \n`;
	tR += `end-date: \n`;
	tR += `location: \n`;
	tR += '---\n\n';
}
%>

And you're all set! When you create the note, it will take a few seconds to pull from your remote calendar (as it does to load events in the first place), but be patient and they should appear. If you only get blank metadata fields with calendar set to obsidian, templater has not found the event - check you have everything setup correctly.