Disclaimer
Is this project open source? Yes
Is this project completely free? Yes
Is this project vibe-coded beyond the author’s ability to comprehend how it works? No
Community Directory:[Daily Echoes](https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/daily-echoes)
Hi!
I’ve just released Daily Echoes, a small plugin that resurfaces your daily notes from previous years in the right sidebar — so you can see what you were writing about on this day a year ago, three years ago, and so on.
What makes it a bit different
Most “on this day” plugins match every document in the vault and give you a single “today” view. Daily Echoes:
- shows only your daily notes by default (including other documents is an opt-in setting),
- offers four time windows instead of one,
- reads dates straight from your core Daily notes (or Periodic Notes) settings — no extra configuration, no hard-coded date convention. If your format is
Log/YYYY/YYYY-MM-DD, that just works.
The four modes
| Mode | Shows earlier entries that fall on… |
|---|---|
| On this day (default) | the same month and day-of-month as today |
| This week | within 3 days either side of today’s date |
| This month | the same calendar month as today |
| This day of month | the same day number (e.g. the 20th) of any month |
Every entry is labelled with how long ago it was (“2 years ago”), and rendered with a preview — none, a truncated snippet, or the full note, your choice. Click to open, ⌘/Ctrl-click to open in a new tab.
Other settings
- Default mode — which window opens on startup.
- Include other notes — also include non-daily notes, dated via frontmatter, filename, or file creation time. Off by default, and meant to stay that way for most people.
- Include current year — show earlier entries from this year too (today’s own note is always excluded).
Usage
Click the calendar-clock ribbon icon, or run Daily Echoes: Open view. Modes can be switched from the panel header, or bound to hotkeys via the per-mode commands.
Privacy
Everything is local. No network requests, no telemetry. It reads the paths your Daily notes settings already define, and only scans the wider vault if you explicitly turn on “Include other notes”.
Feedback and bug reports very welcome — especially from anyone with an unusual daily-notes folder/format setup, since that’s the part most likely to have edge cases.
Cheers, Wojciech