For those who regularly work past midnight, it would be nice if there was a configurable “end of the day” time setting such as 6:00. So between 0:00 and 5:59am of the following day, the action (or hotkey) for going to the current daily note would still go to what is technically yesterday but in my mind still the same workday/worknight.
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I’ve never come across anyone else asking for this, but I so. completely. agree!
Especially for habit trackers, time trackers, and calendars, or anything that automatically rolls over tasks or counters. I had some other examples too, but can’t recall.
Sometimes I wonder how annoying it would be to just set my computer’s time to a timezone shifted 3 or 4 hours. I imagine that would have some unintended side effects, and make scheduling things more difficult.
Brainstorming, I wonder if a good workaround would be to use some kind of snippet manager to jump to an Obsidian URI that matched your daily note. For example, in MacOS, I bet Alfred App has the necessary tools to do that. Or Mac or Linux could likely write a script that would calculate the offset date string and copy it to your clipboard, and send that to some URI launcher. Windows, I have no idea.
There’s precedent:
And the same feature request in other day-planning apps:
came across this post looking for an answer myself. if I find an answer, I’ll drop it here.
On Linux, you can launch Obsidian in a different time zone several hours behind you:
TZ=Pacific/Honolulu ./Obsidian-1.4.16.AppImage
This can trick the Daily Note button into showing yesterday’s note.
… and if you have a desktop entry:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Obsidian
Exec=env TZ=Pacific/Honolulu /home/user/opt/Obsidian-1.4.16.AppImage %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=/home/user/notes/media/obsidian-icon.png
StartupWMClass=obsidian
#X-AppImage-Version=0.8.15 # not needed??
Comment=Obsidian
Categories=Office;
MimeType=text/html;x-scheme-handler/obsidian;
Replace the filename with your version.
The Anki app has a simple setting for this. You can set the date to change at 4:00 am or whatever. I am sure there are a lot of night owls out there who would like this feature.
The journaling app Diarly has a “Late Night Journaling” setting:
