Daily notes allow you to quickly create and access a note file for each day.
Ctrl+Shift+P → “Foam: Open Daily Note”Alt+D/today, /yesterday, /tomorrow in any noteOpen daily note automatically on VS Code startup:
{
"foam.openDailyNote.onStartup": true
}
Create .foam/templates/daily-note.md to customize the structure:
---
type: daily-note
---
# Daily Note - $FOAM_DATE_YEAR-$FOAM_DATE_MONTH-$FOAM_DATE_DATE
## Tasks
- [ ]
## Notes
Create links to recent daily notes using snippets:
| Snippet | Date |
|---|---|
/today |
today |
/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 are created as yyyy-mm-dd.md in the workspace’s journals folder.
To customize your daily note location and format you can create a .foam/templates/daily-note.md template. See [[templates]] for more information.
There are also some settings to customize the behavior of daily notes, but they are deprecated and will be removed. Please use the daily-note.md template.