Daily Notes & Calendar

A daily note is a regular Markdown note created for you automatically, once a day, so you always have somewhere to write without picking a title or folder first.

Turning them on

Daily notes are per vault. Enable them from:

• The vault’s card in the vault switcher, or
• Settings → Daily Notes (settings: daily), which also sets the folder they live in

Until they’re on, Cmd+D does nothing and Calendar is hidden as a home-screen option.

Using them

• Cmd+D — open today’s note (created automatically if it doesn’t exist yet)
• Option+[ / Option+] — jump to the previous / next day’s note, if one exists

Filenames are the local calendar date, YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2026-08-17.md).

Once daily notes are on, calendar view (open it from search: calendar, calendar view, or daily calendar) becomes a lot more useful — every day with a note gets a dot, click a dotted day to open it, or click an empty day to create one instantly. You can also set Calendar as the home screen.

Use daily notes for a running journal, meeting or standup logs, a lightweight task log, or a daily hub that links out to whatever you worked on that day. Over time they become a timeline of your own work.

Browse them in date order with sort: daily chronological or sort: daily recent — see Search & Colon Commands.