(setup everything for daily notes to work: directory, names)
in ‘Files and Links’ setting, set ‘default file to open’ to ‘daily note’
close vault
reopen vault
it opens the last-opened note, not the daily note.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
I can’t test it in the sandbox vault since it requires closing and re-opening Obsidian to test whether it will open on the (new) daily note.
Expected result
That it opens the daily note - it did work before, on a previous version.
Actual result
It opens the last opened note.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.11.7
Installer version: v1.7.4
Operating system: #14-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 9 17:01:16 UTC 2026 6.17.0-14-generic
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Obsidian gruvbox v0.2.1
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 17
Plugins enabled: 13
1: Text Format v3.1.0
2: Code Editor Shortcuts v1.14.0
3: Advanced Tables v0.22.1
4: Editor Width Slider v1.0.5
5: Link with alias v1.0.11
6: Format Hotkeys v0.1.7
7: Excalidraw v2.20.5
8: Novel word count v4.6.1
9: Print v0.3.9
10: Quiet Outline v0.5.11
11: Shrink pinned tabs v1.0.7
12: Substitutions v0.5.0
13: Data Files Editor v1.3.0
Additional information
I did update all themes and plugins and restarted, same problem
I disabled community plugins completely and then restarted, same problem
I also disabled the theme and used the default one, same problem
The daily notes themselves work, getting created when I click on the daily note icon, and the automatic opening of daily note on startup did used to work. Unfortunately I dont remember which version broke it.
I did try switching to flatpak, same problem, then snap
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: 1.12.4
Installer version: 1.12.4
Operating system: #14-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Jan 9 17:01:16 UTC 2026 6.17.0-14-generic
Login status: not logged in
Language: en-GB
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: dark
Community theme: Obsidian gruvbox 0.2.1
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 17
Plugins enabled: 13
1: Text Format v3.1.0
2: Code Editor Shortcuts v1.14.0
3: Advanced Tables v0.22.1
4: Editor Width Slider v1.0.5
5: Link with alias v1.0.11
6: Format Hotkeys v0.1.7
7: Excalidraw v2.20.6
8: Novel word count v4.6.1
9: Print v0.3.9
10: Quiet Outline v0.5.12
11: Shrink pinned tabs v1.0.7
12: Substitutions v0.5.0
13: Data Files Editor v1.3.0
But same issue. With a new empty vault, however, it works, and I figured out why.
It only worked because I opened it with the general obsidian launcher - normally I use a shortcut like obsidian://open?vault=xxxx’ to open a specific vault from my start menu. If I open the same xxxx vault through the main Obsidian launcher (auto-opening the most recent one: xxxx), then it does open the daily note correctly. So it must be something in how the open?vault= influences the launching process.
this is a Problem I reported under the title "1.11.4 Daily Notes not creating and opening when using URI-Scheme action “Open” before, which is now to be found in the “Bug graveyard” topic (Would add a link but I can’t).
This came to following conclusion:
Since Version 1.11.4, where the Daily Note option was changed in, the behavior of the open-URI-action changed. As you noticed it now doesn’t open daily notes anymore. This behavior is not regarded a bug and intended to overwrite the normal opening behavior of the vault (From the Obsidian Launcher). To open a Vault with daily notes you have to now use the “daily”-URI-action instead of “open” (This has the difference though, that “daily” always opens a new daily note regardless if you configured your Vaults Daily note or not. So you have to know which vault has a daily note or not and use the “daily”-URI-action or “open“-URI-action respectively).
If you don’t like this behavior you can write up an feature request on this forum in the respective topic.