# Daily notes (next-previous **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 20, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573 "2020-08-20T07:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![den](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/den/32/1932_2.png) [@den](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/den)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/1 "2020-08-20T07:22:11Z")
I have many daily notes with this fixed pattern “ww’ DD-MMM (ddd) Y” in daily note plugin. But I cannot see the new NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons. ---
**Author:** ![WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/whitenoise/32/11_2.png) [@WhiteNoise](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/WhiteNoise)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/2 "2020-08-20T13:48:15Z")
moved to help section ---
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/3 "2020-08-20T14:36:03Z")
Where are you not seeing them? They are in the command palette (typically ctrl/cmd+p). ---
**Author:** ![den](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/den/32/1932_2.png) [@den](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/den)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/4 "2020-08-20T14:44:35Z")
Ehh… from changelog I imagine they implemented this navigation buttons: ![](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/2X/2/27e18d49cfd91b93686f8ca21dc5a5e7dd739788.png) > [@How I use Daily Notes](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/how-i-use-daily-notes/3057): > > I use Daily Notes as the backbone of my KMS. The reason is that I find time to an important context for storing information. “When I do something” can be just as important as what I do. I’ve configured my Daily Notes plugin like this: Here are some details: The Date Format is configured to give me the first three characters of the day. For me, this is important because I tend to remember things by what day I did them rather than the date. In my example, my note titles look like 202… ---
**Author:** ![rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/rigmarole/32/29973_2.png) [@rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/rigmarole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:44pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/5 "2020-08-20T14:44:57Z")
They are commands. And you can assign them to hotkeys. `Open next daily note` and `Open previous daily note` I don’t think there is any button. ---
**Author:** ![rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/rigmarole/32/29973_2.png) [@rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/rigmarole)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:46pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/6 "2020-08-20T14:46:39Z")
That is just someone showing how they use a snippet expander called Expanso. > [@Fun with espanso](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/fun-with-espanso/2317): > > I use epsanso on macOS to do text expansion. It uses a YAML file syntax and can do a lot of really powerful things through scripting. Here’s how I use it to put a breadcrumb trail at the top of my daily notes, which looks like this [[2020-06-21|\<\< Yesterday]] | [[2020-06-23|Tomorrow \>\>]] # Breadcrumb - trigger: ":bc" word: true replace: "{{output}}" vars: - name: output type: shell params: cmd: "echo `date -v -1d \"+[[%Y-%m-%d|\<\< Yesterday]]\"`' |… ---
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/7 "2020-08-20T15:02:57Z")
Yeah, I do that, but I just add it to new daily notes with Keyboard Maestro. Every time I start a new daily note, I write `./daily`, and it expands into a script with, roughly, ` ← [[YYYYMMdd-1]] | [[YYYYMMdd+1]] →`. I can share that expansion if you’d like. As @rigmarole noted, the release notes refer to a new Command Palette action (that can be assigned to keyboard shortcuts). ---
**Author:** ![den](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/den/32/1932_2.png) [@den](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/den)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/8 "2020-08-20T15:06:29Z")
Actually to in-build keyboard shortcuts are much handy! ---
**Author:** ![gogoswh](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/gogoswh/32/15620_2.png) [@gogoswh](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/gogoswh)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/9 "2021-06-12T05:33:39Z")
I know I’m late to the party and this dated post, but I’d like to see the KM Macro, please. If it’s available. ---
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2021, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/10 "2021-06-12T15:26:46Z")
These days I use the following in a template with the Periodic Notes plugin: ```auto |← [[{{date-1d:YYYYMMDD}}]]|[[{{date+1d:YYYYMMDD}}]] →| | --- | --- | ``` It’ll expand out to a link to the previous/next day. ---
**Author:** ![Moonbase59](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/moonbase59/32/13648_2.png) [@Moonbase59](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Moonbase59)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/11 "2021-06-14T01:09:06Z")
Also check [REAL Daily Notes previous/next navigation](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/dataviewjs-snippet-showcase/17847/21). ---
**Author:** ![swehba](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/swehba/32/10650_2.png) [@swehba](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/swehba)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/12 "2021-07-22T16:45:59Z")
@rigmarole Do these commands still exist? I don’t see them in the Command Palette for Obsidian v0.12.11. ---
**Author:** ![ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/ryanjamurphy/32/334_2.png) [@ryanjamurphy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/ryanjamurphy)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 5:08pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/13 "2021-07-22T17:08:10Z")
Is the Daily Note plugin enabled in your vault? ---
**Author:** ![rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/rigmarole/32/29973_2.png) [@rigmarole](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/rigmarole)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/14 "2021-07-23T02:10:57Z")
+1 what @ryanjamurphy said. But you also have to be in a valid daily note before you see those commands available. Otherwise in any random note, you’ll only see the “Daily notes: Open today’s daily note” command available. ---
**Author:** ![swehba](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/swehba/32/10650_2.png) [@swehba](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/swehba)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/15 "2021-07-27T05:18:40Z")
Sure enough. I was not in a daily note. When I am in a daily note I do indeed see the “next” and “previous” commands in the palette. Thanks guys. ---
**Author:** ![RufusResearch](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/rufusresearch/32/1739_2.png) [@RufusResearch](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/RufusResearch)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/16 "2021-08-22T10:58:49Z")
This was the neatest solution I found for this, thank you brother! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/daily-notes-next-previous/4573/17 "2021-09-21T10:59:43Z")
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