Daily notes (next-previous

[den]

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.

[WhiteNoise]

moved to help section

[ryanjamurphy]

Where are you not seeing them? They are in the command palette (typically ctrl/cmd+p).

[den]

Ehh… from changelog I imagine they implemented this navigation buttons:

How I use Daily Notes

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: [image] 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…

[rigmarole]

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.

[rigmarole]

That is just someone showing how they use a snippet expander called Expanso.

Fun with espanso

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]]\"`' |…

[ryanjamurphy]

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).

[den]

Actually to in-build keyboard shortcuts are much handy!

[gogoswh]

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.

[ryanjamurphy]

These days I use the following in a template with the Periodic Notes plugin:

|← [[{{date-1d:YYYYMMDD}}]]|[[{{date+1d:YYYYMMDD}}]] →|
| --- | --- |

It’ll expand out to a link to the previous/next day.

[Moonbase59]

Also check REAL Daily Notes previous/next navigation.

[swehba]

@rigmarole Do these commands still exist? I don’t see them in the Command Palette for Obsidian v0.12.11.

[ryanjamurphy]

Is the Daily Note plugin enabled in your vault?

[rigmarole]

+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.

[swehba]

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.

[RufusResearch]

This was the neatest solution I found for this, thank you brother!