Allow "Open today's daily note" to open file whose name starts with current date

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

I’d like to name my daily notes in format <date format> <title>, like “2025-08-23 summary of what I did today”, so that when I view the daily notes in the list, I know what each note is about by looking at the title, and recall what I did in a time period.

I expect that when I press the “Open today’s daily note” button, if there exists a note whose name starts with current date, it is opened, instead of opening a new note.

Proposed solution

Add an option to the Daily notes plugin, like “Allow filename with date prefix” as a checkbox, when checked, the “Open today’s daily note” command tries to find the daily note by date prefix, if there’s none, open a new file.

Current workaround (optional)

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Related feature requests (optional)

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The naming that you propose for your daily note “2025-08-23 summary of what I did today” sounds like a MOC. A daily MOC.

Maybe there is something in the MOC way of note taking that could work for you?

I personally use a standard daily note as a summary for the things I did today. To see everything that I touched today, I have a Base sidebar that shows all files created / modified today.

Just suggesting some different approaches to reach, what I hope is a similar outcome.

Hope that helps.

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This would be really handy for browsing.

I believe the Periodic Notes plugin was working on a feature like this. I don’t know if it ever made it to the beta version or if it was only ever a plan. (It used to have documentation about the beta in its README, which should still be viewable in that file’s version history.) The public release hasn’t updated in 3 years; I don’t know how up to date the beta is.