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
```

Hi there, thanks for sharing. I just ran into the same issue as @1artist with the parsing error. Looks like I needed to enable a few extra flags to fix the template. Hope this helps. Cheers 👍

getting this error how should i tackle it

@Pdfulkar it looks like Templater is not properly executing to turn the template into a note. For one-offs, you can use the command palette to trigger Templater: Replace templates in the active file or make sure your settings are adjusted so that Templater runs when you create a new note from a template.

@Pdfulkar it looks like Templater is not properly executing to turn the template into a note. For one-offs, you can use the command palette to trigger Templater: Replace templates in the active file or make sure your settings are adjusted so that Templater runs when you create a new note from a template.

Yup Now It's Working As it should be
thanks @dannberg

now recently Found out that the yesterday and Tomorrow buttons are giving totally wrong data specifically it is giving same date for each button

This version of the template has issues when used in conjunction with obsidian-calendar-plugin.

The Calendar plugin allows users to click on any date in the calendar to create a diary entry for that day. This is very convenient for busy people to backfill their diary entries from the previous day. In such cases, using tp.date.now() no longer represents the intended time.

The only reliable source of the date string is the file name. Whether using the default Daily Notes or the Calendar plugin, the file names of the notes they create are the target dates we want.

Assuming we set the Date format in the settings of the Daily Notes plugin to "YYYY-MM-DD", the template can be designed as follows:

<%*
const fileDateStr = tp.file.title;
const fileMoment = window.moment(fileDateStr, "YYYY-MM-DD");
%># <% fileDateStr %>

<< [[<% fileMoment.clone().subtract(1, 'day').format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>|Yesterday]] | [[<% fileMoment.clone().add(1, 'day').format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>|Tomorrow]] >>

I had the same problem described by @Pdfulkar and @victorwoo on ephemeral notes as well.
A good solution is to adapt Victor's approach to add the journaling date to the frontmatter.

E.g.:

---
created: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
<%*
const journalDate = window.moment(tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD");
%>
journal-date: <% journalDate.format("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
---

Then you can use the Dataview JavaScript API to retrieve ephemeral notes. This also allows you to completely skip the ephemeral note headers when you haven't created or modified any notes on that day.

```dataviewjs
const journalDate = dv.current().file.frontmatter["journal-date"];

const created = dv.pages()
  .where(p => p.file.cday.toISODate() === journalDate)
  .sort(p => p.file.ctime, 'asc');

const modified = dv.pages()
  .where(p => p.file.mtime.toISODate() === journalDate)
  .sort(p => p.file.mtime, 'asc');

if (created.length > 0 || modified.length > 0) {
  dv.span("---");
}

if (created.length > 0) {
  dv.header(2, "Notes created today");
  dv.list(created.map(p => p.file.link));
}

if (modified.length > 0) {
  dv.header(2, "Notes last touched today");
  dv.list(modified.map(p => p.file.link));
}
```

You can also adapt Victor's example above for navigation:

<< [[<% journalDate.clone().subtract(1, 'day').format("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd") %>|Yesterday]] | [[<% journalDate.clone().add(1, 'day').format("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd") %>|Tomorrow]] >>

But I'm a huge fan of the Journals plugin, which makes navigation as simple as:

```journal-nav

```