Dann Berg's Daily Note Template for Obsidian. Uses Dataview & Templater plugins. Should be saved as a Markdown file in Obsidian. Read the full tour: https://dannb.org/blog/2022/obsidian-daily-note-template/

obsidian-daily-note-template.txt

---
created: <% tp.file.creation_date() %>
---
tags:: [[+Daily Notes]]

# <% moment(tp.file.title,'YYYY-MM-DD').format("dddd, MMMM DD, YYYY") %>

<< [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", -1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", -1) %>|Yesterday]] | [[Timestamps/<% tp.date.now("YYYY", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("MM-MMMM", 1) %>/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD-dddd", 1) %>|Tomorrow]] >>

---
### 📅 Daily Questions
##### 🌜 Last night, after work, I...
- 

##### 🙌 One thing I'm excited about right now is...
- 

##### 🚀 One+ thing I plan to accomplish today is...
- [ ] 

##### 👎 One thing I'm struggling with today is...
- 

---
# 📝 Notes
- <% tp.file.cursor() %>

---
### Notes created today
```dataview
List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.ctime asc
```

### Notes last touched today
```dataview
List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.mtime asc
```

If you're running Obsidian on ChromeOS via Linux virtual machine, you need you replace <% tp.file.creation_date() %> with <% tp.file.last_modified_date("YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm") %> or you'll consistently get 1970-01-01 01:00

I am getting the Parsing error shown below circled in RED after copying the RAW code from the Github page and pasting it into my Daily Note template file located in Extra/Journal/Template, Daily Note file. Can anybody in this forum please clarify to me why this error is being generated? It says "Expected one of the following:" but I do not know what it is referring to. I am using the latest Obsidian/Templater on a Windows 10 PC. Any advice welcome.

### Notes created today
Dataview: Error: 
-- PARSING FAILED --------------------------------------------------

> 1 | List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.ctime asc
    |                                                     ^

Expected one of the following: 

'(', ')', '*' or '/' or '%', '+' or '-', ',', '.', '>=' or '<=' or '!=' or '=' or '>' or '<', '[', 'and' or 'or'

### Notes last touched today
Dataview: Error: 
-- PARSING FAILED --------------------------------------------------

> 1 | List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD")%>") SORT file.mtime asc
    |                                                     ^

Expected one of the following: 

'(', ')', '*' or '/' or '%', '+' or '-', ',', '.', '>=' or '<=' or '!=' or '=' or '>' or '<', '[', 'and' or 'or'

@1artist use these instead :

List FROM "" WHERE file.cday = date("<%tp.date.now('YYYY-MM-DD')%>") SORT file.ctime asc

List FROM "" WHERE file.mday = date("<%tp.date.now('YYYY-MM-DD')%>") SORT file.mtime asc

Using those lines of code, I don't get an error, but I just get this, even after I make an edit to another note

@Lavender-Daydream Most likely the directory structure of your query is incorrect. Make sure you verify that you use the same structure in your vault as is in the Dataview table. My secret weapon is ChatGPT. You can feed it a table and tell it what to change and it usually spits out a working table.

I am completely new to Obsidian and DataView so forgive my ignorance, but what exactly is the point of the "tags:: [[+Daily Notes]]"? I can tell by the double colon that I can use the values (in list form) after tags:: to do some cool query stuff. But why exactly is +Daily Notes linked to +Daily Notes? Is that so I can have a meta note on how this code works or something? Or am I missing something else. In addition, is it set up that way, so I can add my own custom tags to the daily note? E.g. tags:: [[+Daily Notes]], Good Day, Hot Day, etc.? Thanks! I found this template otherwise immediately useful! In addition, this might be super obvious to everyone else, but why is there a + sign in front of Daily Notes?

Edited: For + sign.

@ianvg you are correct. I have a separate page called +Daily Notes that's basically the MOC for my daily notes. In it, I just have a dataview table that lists all my Daily Notes. I never actually use this page, though...

Instead, it's more useful for the Graph view. If you're viewing your Graph, and you have this +Daily Notes page on every Daily Note, that +Daily Notes node will be be large and easy to spot. It's basically a single page linking all related notes togehter.

Due to this, it's more style instead of function, at least for me. Nothing more to it than that.

Hi there, thanks for sharing. I just ran into the same issue as @1artist with the parsing error. Looks like I needed to enable a few extra flags to fix the template. Hope this helps. Cheers 👍

getting this error how should i tackle it

@Pdfulkar it looks like Templater is not properly executing to turn the template into a note. For one-offs, you can use the command palette to trigger Templater: Replace templates in the active file or make sure your settings are adjusted so that Templater runs when you create a new note from a template.

@Pdfulkar it looks like Templater is not properly executing to turn the template into a note. For one-offs, you can use the command palette to trigger Templater: Replace templates in the active file or make sure your settings are adjusted so that Templater runs when you create a new note from a template.

Yup Now It's Working As it should be
thanks @dannberg