My current Daily Note Template in Obsidian utilizing Templater and DataView Plugins

dailyNoteTemplate.txt

---
creation date: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
tags: DailyNote <% tp.file.title.split('-')[0] %>
---

modification date: <%+ tp.file.last_modified_date("dddd Do MMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss") %> // This doesn't currently work in front matter, hoping that gets fixed.

# <% tp.file.title %>

<< [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]] | [[<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]>>

## Tasks

#### Over Due

```tasks
not done
due before <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
```

#### Due Today

```tasks
not done
due on <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
```

#### New Today
- [ ]

## Meeting Log

### 0000:

## Daily Log

### [[Project 1]]


### [[Project 2]]


### [[Project 3]]

## Daily Check List

### Start of Day

- [ ] Check Email
- [ ] Check Teams
- [ ] Check showing online
- [ ] Check Calendar - Time Block

### End of Day

- [ ] Show Offline
- [ ] Clean Unused Headings in Daily Log
- [ ] Check tomorrow's calendar

## Other Tasks

#### No Due Date

```tasks
not done
no due date
```

#### Done Today

```tasks
done on <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD") %>
```

Hi - found your article on Medium and decided I liked your template and I was going to start using it. I am using the daily note plugin with this template. Templater is installed. when I click on daily notes to create a new note, I get an "invalid reference date format". I am not sure where to start looking to correct this.

Actually had a heck of a time getting the top portion of the doc to template correctly. Adding + seemed to do the trick, also had to adjust whitespace:

---
creation date: <%+ tp.file.creation_date() %>
tags: DailyNote-<%+tp.file.title.split('-')[1]%>-<%+tp.file.title.split('-')[2]%>
---

modification date: <%+ tp.file.last_modified_date("dddd Do MMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss") %>

# <%+ tp.file.title %>

<< [[<%+ tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", -1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]] | [[<%+ tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD", 1, tp.file.title, "YYYY-MM-DD") %>]]>>

how to deal with tasks from daily template in no due?

Thanks @itsmyfirstname i had the same problem, that fixed it perfectly.

The only issue I have with this now is when Obsidian creates the daily note, these template fields all show up as the literal string “NaN”. But if I create a note and add the template, it works as expected.

Not sure if this is an obsidian Mobile thing or what. I’ll have to try with a desktop client.

Thanks @itsmyfirstname i had the same problem, that fixed it perfectly.

The only issue I have with this now is when Obsidian creates the daily note, these template fields all show up as the literal string “NaN”. But if I create a note and add the template, it works as expected.

Not sure if this is an obsidian Mobile thing or what. I’ll have to try with a desktop client.

I was able to fix this by

• Making a folder for templates
• setting templates path in templater
• Setting daily temple to nothing
• Making new daily temple with ctr + p + open daily note
• alt + e select the template

I did however have to add this dataview to make sure it did not pick up tasks i added into the template (using dataview.js)

dv.taskList(dv.pages() .file.where(f => f.name != "Daily Note") .tasks.where(t => !t.completed)) 

Thanks for sharing this.

In case it helps anyone, I wrote a CSS snippet to slight reduce the frontmatter visible priority. There isn't a selector to target the whole frontmatter (no containing div) but its better than nothing:

.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-def{
    font-size:25%;
}
.cm-s-obsidian .cm-hmd-frontmatter {
    font-size:75%;
}
.cm-s-obsidian span.cm-meta {
  color: var(--text-faint);
  opacity:0.5
}

Hi, good morning, at first thanks so much for sharing your template. I use it since a lot of time. In the last weeks I've not worked a lot with Obsidian. Today I would start use it again and the following Tasks collections doesn't work anymore:

• Over due
• Due today
• Done today

I'm not sure what changed or what I've to do, to fix it.

Can you help me or give me a hint what I have to do to be able to use the task collections again?

Sorry - this is something I am no longer using or keeping up to date.