Additional date formats when expanding dates

[t3mujin]

First of all, kudos for bringing back nldates! It's one of my favourite plugins.

Now to the topic, one of the issues already in nldates was that it always expanded in a day format, but sometimes what's needed is more options, more often in weeks and months (ex: 2026-W02 or 2026-Q3). You can find more details in the original item and pull request.

Pull request: community-archive#9
Original issue: argenos#93

[Amato21]

Thanks for the report and the pointers to the upstream PR/issue — implemented, with the full scope from the title (weeks and months and quarters, not just weeks): #50

What's new

Four new optional settings (Settings → Periodic notes), each empty/disabled by default so nothing changes unless you opt in:

• Week format (e.g. GGGG-[W]WW → 2026-W02)
• Month format (e.g. YYYY-MM → 2026-01)
• Quarter format (e.g. YYYY-[Q]Q → 2026-Q3)
• Year format (e.g. YYYY → 2026)

When you configure one and type an expression that resolves to a whole period instead of a single day — @next week, @this quarter, @Q3, @Q3 2026, @2026-W02, etc. — that format is used instead of the daily Date format, so it links straight to your weekly/monthly/quarterly/yearly note (works well with the Periodic Notes plugin).

Recognized in all 12 supported languages (@next week / @semaine prochaine / @来週 / @다음 주 / …), not just English.

Leaving a field empty keeps the current behavior exactly as-is — including @next week still expanding into a link for every day of the week if you don't set a week format.

Status

PR is up: #50. CI is running now; once it's green I'll merge it. This will be available starting with the next release — I'll post back here once it ships.

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