Daily Notes opens old note, not new note for today

[Rumachine22]

First, search the help docs and this forum. Maybe your question has been answered! The debugging steps can help, too. Still stuck? Delete this line and proceed.

What I’m trying to do

I’m selecting the “Open today’s daily note” icon. When I do this, the daily note from July 1 is opening instead of a new note for today (July 8) being opened.

Things I have tried

I’m less than a week into using Obsidian so this may be user error. However, this did work on July 1 and July 2. I’ve rechecked the daily notes plugin and all appears to be setup correctly.

[ariehen]

Sounds silly, but is the date (& time) on your device set correctly? Are you using Windows? macOS? Linux?

Also, can you take a screenshot if your Daily notes settings screen? Just so folks can double check.

[Rumachine22]

System date/time should be fine. I’m on a windows machine.

I have the calendar pinned to the right side panel. If I select today’s date and choose to Create today’s note, I get an error message in the upper right saying “Unable to create new file”.

I’ve included a screenshot of my daily notes settings.

[ariehen]

For your Date format, try dddd, MMMM DD, YYYY

https://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/format/

[Rumachine22]

@ariehen

dddd, MMMM DD, YYYY

AWESOME! That change fixed the issue. I was able to create a new daily note for today.

Thanks!!!