Obsidian Daily Notes

UPDATED 2025-05-12: Updated Daily Note template posted on my GitHub. Example below.

I've settled on a Daily note format that works really well, so I want to share it. It uses Templater, Calendar, YAML, and best of all some Dataview scripts to show some useful information. I found the data scripts from scouring the forums and changed them a bit to give me what I wanted. I hope you find this useful too.

Requirements:
1. Obsidian
2. Templater plugin
3. Calendar Plugin
4. Dataview plugin

How to create it:
1. Create the template using the Daily Note script here.
2. Place the template as a note in your templates folder.
3. Configure Settings for Daily notes as shown in the screenshot at the bottom of the page.
(Date format is YYYY/MMMM/YYYY-MM-DD-dddd)
4. Clicking on today's date on the calendar creates the daily note using the template.

What you get:
YAML section includes Summary and useful navigation links
"On This Day" will show you Daily Notes made a year ago to the day Unless you don't have any... like me)
If you're looking at an old note it will list notes made in future years on the same day.
"Note Activity Today" shows notes you made on the same day as the current daily note. If you haven't made or modified any, Dataview will show no results.
"Upcoming Birthdays" is explained in this post