Daily notes
Daily notes is a core plugin that opens a note based on today's date, or creates it if it doesn't exist. Use daily notes to create journals, to-do lists, or daily logs for things you discovered during the day.
To open today's daily note, either:
- Click Open today's daily note (
) in the ribbon. - Run Open today's daily note from the Command palette.
- Use a hotkey for the Open today's daily note command.
By default, Obsidian creates a new empty note named after today's date in the YYYY-MM-DD format.
Create a daily note from template
If your daily notes have the same structure, you can use a template to add pre-defined content to your daily notes when you create them.
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Create a new note named "Daily template" with the following text (or whatever makes sense to you!):
# {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}} ## Tasks - [ ] -
Open Settings.
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In the sidebar, click Daily notes under Plugin options.
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In the text box next to Template file location, select the "Daily template" note.
Obsidian uses the template the next time you create a new daily note.
Daily notes and properties
When the Daily notes plugin is activated and a date property is present within any note, Obsidian will automatically attempt to generate a link to the daily note for that specific day. For instance, if a note titled example.md includes a date property like 2023-01-01, this date will transform into a clickable link in the live preview section.
