Creating an Inline-Block in Portable Text to Insert Current Date or Time

Here’s one I’m having a hard time with.
I would like to create an “inline-block” in my portable text, such that I could have a way to insert the current date or time as a block. As far as I can tell, I cannot do this as a standalone thing, I would have to annotate text and use a mark to say it should display the current date before it or instead of it.

Is there another solution here that I’m not thinking of?

I’m pretty sure you‘re correct, you’ll have to annotate the text and get rid of its content if you don’t use it.

gotcha, thank you for the reply. That’s what i ended up doing

You can make inline blocks though!

The

currentDate

object can type can also have an initial value that puts a predefined string

Juxtaposition may be helpful to underline this, because regular custom blocks can seem inline, whereas what is saying is truly inline.
On the left is a similar example from the docs, juxtaposed on the right with a custom block that
follows after the editor block in the array that houses them, instead of being a specific of qualifier.
The ones he is showing you how to do are really powerful
because they can be right in the middle of text and I am always surprised to see how uncommon they are because of the utility they provide.