Dann Berg's Daily Note Template for Obsidian. Uses Dataview & Templater plugins. Should be saved as a Markdown file in Obsidian. Read the full tour: https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-daily-note-template/

obsidian-daily-note-template.txt

---
created: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
---
tags:: [[+Daily Notes]]

# <% moment(tp.file.title,'YYYY-MM-DD').format("dddd, MMMM DD, YYYY") %>

<< [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", -1) %>|Yesterday]] | [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", 1) %>|Tomorrow]] >>

---
### 📅 Daily Questions
##### 🌜 Last night, after work, I...
- 

##### 🙌 One thing I'm excited about right now is...
- 

##### 🚀 One+ thing I plan to accomplish today is...
- [ ] 

##### 👎 One thing I'm struggling with today is...
- 

---
# 📝 Notes
- <% tp.file.cursor() %>

---
### Notes created today
```dataview
List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.ctime asc
```

### Notes last touched today
```dataview
List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.mtime asc
```

I put the ticks in the comment so they'd appear as code in the Github comment -- they don't appear in the template itself. In the template, it is exactly as it appears in the screenshot, and renders as that piece of code rather than the cursor at that position (which I assume is what's supposed to happen). In the templater code, I've cut and pasted exactly what appears above. The Templater plugin is installed and active.

• Did you tick "automatic jump to cursor" in Templator's options?
• And maybe a stupid question, but you pasted '<% tp.file.cursor() %>' in your template, right? It's supposed to stay code in your template, and only when you 'create new note form template' it should give you a note without the code and just the cursor below your Notes heading.

Aha! It was automatic jump to cursor! Thank you so much -- I'd never have puzzled that through solo.

Haha, glad to help, I'm a beginner myself.

You're not the first person with a question about <% tp.file.cursor() %>. I should be explicit about this being a setting that needs to be enabled in the post. Will update!

Anyone with a tip to stop odd formatting issue when trying to put in a block of code? Whenever I put in the code formatting ticks it opens code for everything below it, even after putting in the code in question and closing the formatting correctly?

First of all, thanks to @dannberg for laying all this out in your blog post! I've followed along to create my own dailynote setup.
For some reason, your "notes created today" and "notes last touched" dataview snippets wouldn't render at all once the daily note got created, so I did some googling and found this. I've modified the dataview snippet like below and now it's rendering perfectly!

For anyone who's having issues, try out this code instead!

List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<% tp.date.now() %>") SORT file.ctime asc

List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<% tp.date.now() %>") SORT file.mtime asc

How to set automatic directory of new daily note, i can set in settings that new daily note will appear in 2024/06 june/"note", but when new month starts, i need to set it again to 2024/07 july/"note" manually.

@MochyPei Enter this in the Date format field:
YYYY/MM MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD-dddd

If you're running Obsidian on ChromeOS via Linux virtual machine, you need you replace <% tp.file.creation_date() %> with <% tp.file.last_modified_date("YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm") %> or you'll consistently get 1970-01-01 01:00

I am getting the Parsing error shown below circled in RED after copying the RAW code from the Github page and pasting it into my Daily Note template file located in Extra/Journal/Template, Daily Note file. Can anybody in this forum please clarify to me why this error is being generated? It says "Expected one of the following:" but I do not know what it is referring to. I am using the latest Obsidian/Templater on a Windows 10 PC. Any advice welcome.

### Notes created today
Dataview: Error: 
-- PARSING FAILED --------------------------------------------------

> 1 | List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.ctime asc
    |                                                     ^

Expected one of the following: 

'(', ')', '*' or '/' or '%', '+' or '-', ',', '.', '>=' or '<=' or '!=' or '=' or '>' or '<', '[', 'and' or 'or'

### Notes last touched today
Dataview: Error: 
-- PARSING FAILED --------------------------------------------------

> 1 | List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.mtime asc
    |                                                     ^

Expected one of the following: 

'(', ')', '*' or '/' or '%', '+' or '-', ',', '.', '>=' or '<=' or '!=' or '=' or '>' or '<', '[', 'and' or 'or'

@1artist use these instead :

List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now('YYYY-MM-DD')%>") SORT file.ctime asc

List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now('YYYY-MM-DD')%>") SORT file.mtime asc

Using those lines of code, I don't get an error, but I just get this, even after I make an edit to another note

@Lavender-Daydream Most likely the directory structure of your query is incorrect. Make sure you verify that you use the same structure in your vault as is in the Dataview table. My secret weapon is ChatGPT. You can feed it a table and tell it what to change and it usually spits out a working table.