null not is not used in the other templates

I realized a couple of things about my frontmatter field names, namely that using kabob-case style field names has two negative side effects:

1. when you double click on them in Obsidian or VS Code, it only selects kabob and not the entire field name
2. when I try to use them directly in Python using setattr() or getattr(), the dash - causes issues

So, for these two reasons I'm changing the templates and my code to use snake_case instead, i.e. using underscore character _ instead of dash character - to separate words in the field_names.

It takes a long time to run the python script for my 31,511 contacts so I'd like to be able to pass a parameter, the slug of the person to run it for. This way, if I know I've had comms with a specific person (or persons maybe?) it will run a lot faster

Include each of the individual, dated Markdown note files (chats, emails, calls) into the Person's profile under ## Notes so you can see the entire communication history with the person.

Steps:

1. Go through each folder folder-name under People
2. Find all files with names YYYY-MM-DD
3. Create a list of them like this, ordered oldest to newest

![[spongebob/2017-08-13]]

![[spongebob/2022-12-06]]

5. Open the corresponding person file where slug = folder-name
6. Find the section ## Notes
7. After any bulleted list items (individual notes), replace what is there with the new list of embedded files

Existing person file:

## Notes

- [x]  2019-03-16: Update his profile

![[spongebob/2017-08-13]]

Becomes

## Notes

- [x]  2019-03-16: update his profile

![[spongebob/2017-08-13]]

![[spongebob/2022-12-06]]

Hi...

I apologise first if this is too much of strain on you to do it. I actually emabarked on a journey to do this. And a team member sent me this. And I am actually blown away by this.

If possible can you add a video of this working in the Readme?

One of the things I want in this is to also somehow share this with my team so we can have one source of truth for our organisation. Maybe its will be too much but I would be happy to contribute to this if I take this up.

Thanks

Include turns x in the birthday string

e.g. Spongebob turns 2 on Apr 3

Sometimes I have multiple files for a specific day for a person. For example, if I get an email from them and I have a Signal chat. When this happens I sometimes override the filename

e.g.

2022-03-24.md
2022-03-24 - email.md

Would be good to embed both of those files.

That said, sometimes I have duplicate files like when there are sync issues in Syncthing, so I definitely don't want those embedded. Same for cases where I may have dragged and dropped a file and Windoze appended a 1 or 2 to the filename

2024-03-24.md
2024-03-24 1.md

Add a -u <#> or -upcoming <#> option that shows the birthdays coming up in the next # days

md_interactions.py script only includes files with names YYYY-MM-DD.md but sometimes I have multiple files on the same day for the same person, e.g. a file with tags: email and another with tags: email. I usually have the chat files named with YYYY-MM-DD.md and the email files named with YYYY-MM-DD - email.md. With this improvement, all of them would be embedded in the Person's profile file body within the ## Notes section.

Steps:

1. Go through each folder folder-name under People
2. Find all files with filename format YYYY-MM-DD.md
3. Find the most recent one, e.g. 2022-12-06.md

![[spongebob/2017-08-17]]

![[spongebob/2022-12-06]]

4. Open the corresponding person file where slug = folder-name
5. Set the last-contact YAML Frontmatter field to the value e.g. 2022-12-06

last-contact: 2022-12-06

There may be some use cases where someone wants to use a single markdown file Birthday.md to see all birthdays by month.

Example:

January

[/^(birthday)/: /.*01-\d{2}$/]

February

[/^(birthday)/: /.*02-\d{2}$/]

etc...

The birthday: field can have values in YYYY-MM-DD or MM-DD format in cases where the year is not known.

When running md_birthdays.py it is not including those with MM-DD