Add third button to modal?

[churnish]

I wish there was a third button in the capture modal--"New"--that would act as "Ok" (save) and bring up a new modal. This would allow for rapid brain dumping. A quick mock-up:

Although, looking at it now, I'd like the new button to be sandwiched between "Cancel" and "Ok" instead.

Is there a way to achieve this?

P.S. I'd also like to rename the "Ok" button to "Save" but this is less important.

[chhoumann]

Sorry for the very slow reply here.

There's no "Save & New" button, and I don't plan to add one to the prompt itself. It's the same prompt every {{VALUE}} uses, so a third button there would mostly be noise. But you can get the brain-dump loop today with a tiny Macro that re-runs your Capture until you press Escape.

1. Save this as a user script in your vault, e.g. scripts/brain-dump.js, and swap "Add to inbox" for your Capture choice's name:

module.exports = async ({ quickAddApi }) => {
	// Re-opens the capture after every entry. Press Esc (or Cancel) to stop.
	while (true) await quickAddApi.executeChoice("Add to inbox");
};

2. Create a Macro choice (say "Brain dump"), add the script as its only command, and toggle the Macro's own command on (the lightning bolt) so you can bind it to a hotkey.

Then it's type, Enter, type, Enter... Each Enter saves and immediately opens a fresh prompt. Escape ends the session, and nothing is written for the prompt you cancelled.

One heads-up: while testing this I noticed that on current versions every re-opened prompt comes pre-filled with the entry you just saved. It's selected, so typing over it works. The last entry also stays pre-filled the next time you run the capture. The fix is in #1853.

On renaming "Ok" to "Save": the button labels aren't configurable, sorry.

[chhoumann]

Follow-up: QuickAdd 2.29.0 is out with the fix from #1853. The entry you just saved no longer shows up in the next prompt of the loop, or the next time you run the Capture.

The loop is now a docs example you can install with one paste: Macro: Brain dump. Click Copy package, then in Obsidian go to Settings → QuickAdd → Import package…. It adds a Brain dump macro and a Brain dump entry Capture that writes to Inbox.md. To loop a Capture you already have, put its name in the script's Capture choice setting. It also stops by itself if that Capture doesn't ask for anything.

Release notes: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd/releases/tag/2.29.0 (section "Jot down several ideas in a row")