Daily Notes

Daily notes allow you to quickly create and access a note file for each day.

Creating Daily Notes

• Command: Ctrl+Shift+P → “Foam: Open Daily Note”
• Shortcut: Alt+D
• Snippets: Type /today, /yesterday, /tomorrow in any note

Automatic Daily Notes

Open daily note automatically on VS Code startup:

{
  "foam.openDailyNote.onStartup": true
}

Daily Note Templates

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

Date Snippets

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

Configuration

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 Note 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.

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