Command "Open today's daily note" returns "Error: file name cannot contain …"

[william]

Things I have tried

I have no idea what to try to fix the error.

What I’m trying to do

Invoking either the ribbon action or command: “Open today’s daily note” returns “Error: File name cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / :”

How /where do I fix the error?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[ariehen]

If you look in Settings > Core plugins - Daily notes, is there anything custom in the data format/new file location/template location that might have a prohibited character (depends on OS)?

[william]

No, see screenshot.

macOS 13.0.1
Obsidian 1.0.3

[AlanG]

You literally have a prohibited character in your screenshot, the colon :

The error message in your original post even helpfully mentions you can’t use a colon…

[anon63144152]

As an aside, if you want Obsidian to automatically create subfolders for years and months for you, you can use a pattern such as:

YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD-dddd

[holroy]

To comply fully with ISO8601: Combined date and time and also to comply with only legal characters, you could use YYYYMMDD[T]HHmm as the date format. Or if you are little more lenient, you could skip the T and use something else, like a space, [ ], or a dash/minus, [-].

Regards,
Holroy

[rigmarole]

@anon63144152

As an aside, if you want Obsidian to automatically create subfolders for years and months for you,

Last I checked (and I haven’t tested in a while) this technically works, but isn’t supported well. So the navigation hotkeys no longer work. Which isn’t a deal-breaker, but inconvenient. (If this has changed, please let me know.)

Daily Notes, next and previous fail when using folder in template

Steps to reproduce It is possible to include a folder in the Daily Notes template. For example, I use this: YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD_dddd This automatically puts the notes into a folder for the current year. This is incredibly convenient and useful for long-term journal structure. But when using a folder in the template, Open next daily note and Open previous daily note no longer functions. The commands don’t even appear, just like when there are no matching Daily Notes to find. Expected result I w…

[william]

Yeah, I feel stupid, but TIL the Date format is the file name. Thanks for pointing that out.

[william]

Thank you. I am using a period between the date and time, and all is working. Too bad the colon can’t be used - HH:mm.

[anon63144152]

@rigmarole

Last I checked (and I haven’t tested in a while) this technically works, but isn’t supported well. So the navigation hotkeys no longer work. Which isn’t a deal-breaker, but inconvenient. (If this has changed, please let me know.)

Hello, @rigmarole

I didn’t know about the navigation-hotkeys issue; I have never used them. To navigate, I use:

• Dataview queries in my notes, inserted when the notes are created using Templater
• The Calendar plugin
• The quick switcher / CMD O
• The vault’s binder / list of folders and files

It seems that ignorance, on my part, is bliss.

I like the structure created by using YYYY/MM/YYYY-MM-DD-dddd, and so far I haven’t run into any problems. Appreciate the warning.

(I know you know all the plugins I listed. I added links in case anyone else reads this thread and wants quick links to them.)