For a long time, daily notes were the backbone of my vault. Meeting notes, project updates, random thoughts — everything went into the daily note, to be organized later. It worked at first, but over time I found I was loosing more than I was finding and getting annoyed with all the meta work.
I know the answer is supposed to be linking and backlinks — build a zettelkasten, connect your ideas, and everything becomes findable. But honestly, I’m not interested in all that meta work. I don’t want to spend time tagging, linking, and reviewing notes just to make sure I can find them again. I want to write things down where it’s most useful and move on.
Moments is my answer to that. Instead of putting everything in one daily note, you keep notes where they naturally belong — meeting notes in the project file, events in their own documents, research updates with the research — and Moments weaves them into a unified
timeline. You get the chronological view of a daily note without the junk drawer.
How it works
Moments recognizes three types of date-connected content:
- Inline moments — A dated heading inside any note. For example, in a project file you might have a
## Notessection where you add entries like### [[2026-02-10]] Contractor walkthrough. The heading’s date links it to the timeline, but the content stays in the project file where it belongs. Over time you build up a log of updates in each file, and Moments pulls them all together chronologically across
your vault. - Standalone moments — Dedicated dated files like
2026-02-10 - Coffee with Sarah.md - Implicit moments — Files created or modified on a given day appear as subtle context entries
Open the timeline and you see everything from a given day in one place — project updates, meeting notes, your daily log, and whatever else you were working on.
Other features
- Auto-filters when you open a daily, weekly, or monthly note
- Works with Daily Notes and Periodic Notes plugin date formats
- Commands for quickly creating inline or standalone moments
- Configurable date format, heading level, insert position, and more
- Works on mobile
Installation
Moments is pending approval in the community plugin directory. In the meantime, you can install it with BRAT:
- Install BRAT from Settings → Community plugins → Browse
- Open Settings → BRAT → Add Beta plugin
- Enter mattmcmanus/obsidian-moments
I’d love to hear feedback — this is my first Obsidian plugin and I’m actively developing it.