# 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.

If you prefer to have your daily notes in a separate folder, you can set the New file location under plugin options to change where Obsidian creates new daily notes.

Automatic subfolders

You can automatically organize your daily notes into folders using the Date format feature.

For instance, if you set the date format as YYYY/MMMM/YYYY-MMM-DD, your notes will be created as 2023/January/2023-Jan-01.

You can explore more formatting options on the momentJS documentation site.

# 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.

Create a new note named "Daily template" with the following text (or whatever makes sense to you!):
```
# {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}

## Tasks

- [ ]
```
Open Settings.
In the sidebar, click Daily notes under Plugin options.
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.