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
```

This is the template for my weekly note. Of course you need to change the names of the folder, and translate "Volgende week" with 'next week'.

`##### <% moment(tp.file.title, 'YYYY-[W]-WW').format("[Week] ww - DD MMMM YYYY") %>

<< [[<% fileDate = moment(tp.file.title, 'YYYY-[W]-WW').subtract(1, 'w').format('[To_do/Week]/YYYY/MM-MMMM/YYYY-[W]-WW') %>|Vorige week]] | [[<% fileDate = moment(tp.file.title, 'YYYY-[W]-WW').add(1, 'w').format('[To_do/Week]/YYYY/MM-MMMM/YYYY-[W]-WW') %>|Volgende week]] >>`

My properties are in the template too. I've hidden properties after I made sure they work. Unhidden this is what shows in the template:

And this is what's spit out if I make a weekly note, (but only if you do so in the right folder! Select the right folder, click right and choose new note, or click "volgende week" on an existing note. Making weeknumbers visible in Calender and clicking an empty weeknumber (or day) works as well.) As you see the "Update time on edit" plugin automatically added date properties.

Am I the only person for whom this code just stays as pasted-in code when I start a new daily note?

Notes
<% tp.file.cursor() %>

It just stays in the note, like so:

@pantsmasterson you need to get rid of the quotation mark (') before and after the code. Or maybe you didn't install the templater plugin?

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?