Let "Daily note" and "Last opened" both be selected for "Default file to open" setting in "Files and links" options

Feature requests
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Use case or problem

Obsidian should be able to open a new Daily Note (or the current Daily Note) as well as whatever was open in the last session, when Obsidian was launched. This always used to be the behavior (when Daily Note core plugin was installed and active), but got broken around the second week of 2026 when some other setting options got updated. Please fix, and many thanks.

Proposed solution

I propose simplest/easiest way forward given the new/current settings layout, as allowing multiple selections in the “what files to open” settings selector.

Current workaround (optional)

None. We have to pick “daily note” as the file to open, at the loss of not opening the other files we had open too.

Related feature requests (optional)

This was reported as a Bug by someone else but moderator WhiteNoise suggested opening a Feature Request if there wasn’t one. I searched and did not find one, so this opens the issue as a kind request to move the topic forward toward resolution.

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On iOS I’m finding that when the daily note loads on launch I can press the back button to access the previously open note. This differs from Obsidian’s usual behavior, which is to load with no navigation history. For me this is an OK workaround. This is in v1.11.5. I don’t remember if it was true in v1.11.4.

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Operating systems reported as affected

My feature request / bugfix request is with regard to the Obsidian app on

  • macOS (on two different machines)

Per the Bug thread titled “Daily Notes not created on startup” created 2026-01-14 (that I was not allowed to link to in the OP here), also affected appear to be:

  • Android app
  • Linux Flatpack