Templates: “Insert current date as link” command

Feature requests
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Problem & Use-case

Manually typing the link to the daily note is very annoying to me. I keep many notes as logs which require me to time-stamp each day. So, on any day, I might type “[[20XX-XX-XX]]” 5-10 times depending on how many notes I update.

The Templates core plugin offers a slash command to insert the current date, but it is useless to me because I want the my timestamps as daily note links for backlinking purposes, and slash commands don’t work inside of [[brackets]].

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Proposed solution

The Templates plugin should offer additional commands to insert the date within brackets. This would save me a lot of tediousness each day.

Example of new command

/Templates: Insert current date as link → “[[2026-04-17]]”

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Matbe try using a hotkey for the command instead?

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+1, should be basic Obsidian functionality in my opinion. I use Date Inserter plugin just for this very same use case of adding a date as a link

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I changed the title to more precisely describe the request (was “Expanded functionality for “/Templates: Insert current date””).

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As another workaround you could make a template containing [[{{date}}]]. To call it as a command instead of doing “insert template” and then choosing it. you could use the “Hotkeys for templates” plugin to make a command for it.

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The default templates plug-in has a hot key to enter a date wherever you’re typing. You can change the format of that to include adding the brackets necessary to make it a link.