Daily notes allow you to quickly create and access a new notes file for each day. This is a surprisingly effective and increasingly common strategy to organize notes and manage events.
View today’s note file by running the Foam: Open Daily Note command, by using the shortcut alt+d (note: shortcuts can be overridden), or by using #snippets. The name, location, and title of daily notes files are #configurable.
You can automatically open today’s note on startup by setting the Foam › Open Daily Note: On Startup setting to true.
Daily notes can also make use of [Note Templates], by defining a special .foam/templates/daily-note.md template.
Create a link to a recent daily note using snippets. Type /today and press enter to link to today’s note. You can also write:
| Snippet | Date |
|---|---|
/tomorrow |
tomorrow |
/yesterday |
yesterday |
/monday |
next Monday |
/+1d |
tomorrow |
/-3d |
3 days ago |
/+1w |
in a week |
/-1m |
one month ago |
/+1y |
in one year |
By default, Daily Notes will be created in a file called yyyy-mm-dd.md in the workspace’s journals folder, with the heading yyyy-mm-dd.
These settings can be overridden in your workspace or global .vscode/settings.json file, using the dateformat date masking syntax:
It’s possible to customize the path and heading of your daily notes, by following the dateformat masking syntax. The following properties can be used:
"foam.openDailyNote.directory": "journal",
"foam.openDailyNote.filenameFormat": "'daily-note'-yyyy-mm-dd",
"foam.openDailyNote.fileExtension": "mdx",
"foam.openDailyNote.titleFormat": "'Journal Entry, ' dddd, mmmm d",
The above configuration would create a file journal/daily-note-2020-07-25.mdx, with the heading Journal Entry, Sunday, July 25.
NOTE: It is possible to set the filepath of a daily note according to the date using the special [note-properties] configurable for [Note Templates]. Specifically, see [[note-templates#Example of date-based Example of date-based filepath]]. Using the template property will override any setting configured through .vscode/settings.json.
Please see [note-macros]