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Daily notes is a core plugin that opens a note based on today’s date, or creates one if it doesn’t exist yet. Use daily notes for journals, to-do lists, or daily logs of things you discovered or worked on.

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Enable daily notes

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Open Settings

Click the gear icon in the bottom-left corner, or press Ctrl+, (Cmd+, on macOS).
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Go to Core plugins

Select Core plugins in the sidebar.
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Enable the plugin

Toggle on Daily notes.

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Open today’s note

Once enabled, you can open today’s daily note in several ways:
  • Click Open today’s daily note (calendar icon) in the left ribbon.
  • Run Open today’s daily note from the Command palette.
  • Set a hotkey for the Open today’s daily note command under Settings → Hotkeys.
By default, Obsidian creates a note named after today’s date using the YYYY-MM-DD format (for example, 2024-03-15).

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Configure daily notes

Go to Settings → Core plugins → Daily notes to configure the plugin.

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Date format

Change the filename format using Moment.js format tokens. For example:
FormatExample filename
YYYY-MM-DD (default)2024-03-15
DD-MM-YYYY15-03-2024
MMMM Do, YYYYMarch 15th, 2024
You can automatically organize daily notes into subfolders by including folder separators in the date format. For example, YYYY/MMMM/YYYY-MMM-DD creates notes at paths like 2023/January/2023-Jan-01.

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New file location

Set a folder where Obsidian creates new daily notes. Useful if you want to keep them separate from other notes in your vault.

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Template file

Specify a template note to pre-populate each new daily note. See the Templates plugin for how to create templates with dynamic variables.

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Create daily notes from a template

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Create a template note

Create a new note in your templates folder — for example, named “Daily template” — with content like:
# {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

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## Notes
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Open Daily notes settings

Go to Settings → Core plugins → Daily notes.
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Set the template

In the Template file location field, select your template note.
Obsidian applies the template the next time you create a new daily note.

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Daily notes and date properties

When the Daily notes plugin is active and a note contains a date property in its frontmatter, Obsidian automatically converts that date value into a clickable link to the corresponding daily note. This appears in live preview mode, making it easy to navigate from any note’s metadata to the relevant day.

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Open daily notes via URI

You can open or create today’s daily note from outside Obsidian using the Obsidian URI daily action (the Daily notes plugin must be enabled): 
obsidian://daily?vault=my%20vault
This accepts the same parameters as the new URI action, including content, clipboard, and x-success.

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