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# Daily notes

> The Daily notes plugin creates and opens a note for today's date. Use it for journaling, to-do lists, and day-by-day logs.

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.

## Enable daily notes

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Settings">
    Click the gear icon in the bottom-left corner, or press `Ctrl+,` (`Cmd+,` on macOS).
  </Step>

  <Step title="Go to Core plugins">
    Select **Core plugins** in the sidebar.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Enable the plugin">
    Toggle on **Daily notes**.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## 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`).

## Configure daily notes

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

### Date format

Change the filename format using [Moment.js format tokens](https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/). For example:

| Format                 | Example filename   |
| ---------------------- | ------------------ |
| `YYYY-MM-DD` (default) | `2024-03-15`       |
| `DD-MM-YYYY`           | `15-03-2024`       |
| `MMMM Do, YYYY`        | `March 15th, 2024` |

<Tip>
  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`.
</Tip>

### 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.

### Template file

Specify a template note to pre-populate each new daily note. See the [Templates plugin](/plugins/templates) for how to create templates with dynamic variables.

## Create daily notes from a template

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create a template note">
    Create a new note in your templates folder — for example, named "Daily template" — with content like:

    ```md theme={null}
    # {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

    ## Tasks

    - [ ]

    ## Notes

    ```
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Daily notes settings">
    Go to **Settings → Core plugins → Daily notes**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set the template">
    In the **Template file location** field, select your template note.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Obsidian applies the template the next time you create a new daily note.

## 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.

## Open daily notes via URI

You can open or create today's daily note from outside Obsidian using the [Obsidian URI](/extending/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`.