I stopped using daily notes and work directly in my weekly notes and the themed logs they serve as hubs for (most of which are yearly with weekly headings). The pictures aren’t pretty because I haven’t done anything fancy.
At the top I have navigation links, a line specifying the days of the year/week/month, and then a plain custom callout for a little something fun from the week (here a poem but sometimes a photo, a fortune from a fortune cookie, etc.)
Below that I have a series of headings for life areas and other things that I log. I don’t want to show an actual note but here’s the outline (some of them should logically be subheadings but I found that oddly hard to scan, not that this is great either).
Under each heading (except 0.Quick which is just a scratch pad) is a bullet list summary followed by a link to the full log. Most sections have a list item for each entry; Health, Werk, and Media are more condensed (and the logs for Werk and Media just embed the weekly log sections from the note for each project or work). Either way, I add or modify the summary when I write the entry itself, so I don’t have to do it later. Here’s the current Werk section:
(Most sections other than Werk and Media won’t have all those links — they’ll just have text, like “Washed the windows.”).