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There's a useful plugin called "Daily Notes" which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I've done which I deem noteworthy.

If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That'll be far too much cognitive load for anyone - keep it simple and very quickly you'll know whether you want to add or remove any of the daily ceremony.

I have a "Key tasks" where I include a mostly succinct breakdown of anything worth noting. I did this on Google Docs for 3 years before very recently moving to Obsidian and I wouldn't turn back. Tags and back links definitely help me jump between related thoughts and actions much more than grepping in a 50k+ words Google doc :)

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I've just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I'm loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It's so simple and so powerful.

I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I'm taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling.

I start my day by writing in a "stream of consciousness" app I wrote for myself: https://enso.sonnet.io.

The format is as follows (ca. 20m each morning, 700-800 words):

- 100% unstructured description of my previous day, then

- 3-4 things I found beautiful or interesting, then

- a short TODO list for the day.

Then I just copy past the notes into my new daily note in Obsidian.

This seems to work really well for me. If I was to pick one improvement, it would be Apple Reminders treating multi-line text as separate entries when pasting. But again, it takes just a few seconds, and most of my workflow is just muscle memory at this stage.

PS. I'm thinking about writing an Open AI Whisper powered transcription tool for voice notes in Obsidian. If that's something you'd find useful and would be prepared to pay for, please let me know.

> https://enso.sonnet.io

Thanks for sharing this. Love the constraints and how minimal it is.

Enso looks great, thank you for sharing.

Its not the same - I know, but you can try these options to get a similar experience in obsidian:

- https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zen-focus-mode-with-automation/3... - https://github.com/deathau/cm-typewriter-scroll-obsidian with Zen-Mode enabled.

Not the same, but interesting nevertheless. I saw similar tools for vim when I was researching enso. I can't find the plugin now, but the poor man's version is this:

    :set scrolloff=999

I like the typewriter scroll approach because it allows you not to move your eyes when writing.

I was thinking about "anchoring" not the current line, but the current word. Should take a few seconds to prototype.

I am going to use that serene enso thingy you built :-)

Please do, and let me know how it goes!

There's also the "Periodic Notes" plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.

Which integrates nicely with the Calendar plugin (you can click the week view to create a weekly note directly in the calendar)

True, forgot to mention that, that's how I use it as well. I use it for my journal and it works very well for me.

If anyone is looking for the “Daily Notes” plugin in Obsidian: You can enable it under “Core plugins”.

I also use Memos which is a plugin for quick capture, short status updates. It inserts them in your Daily Notes page. Also can view and search all memos collected across all day pages.

this is great. For those who have a similar workflow we've built a tool[1] around daily documents which on provides full fledged tasks and calendar that can be synced with Gcal or any other calendar via .ics.

[1] https://acreom.com

It works well with the calendar plugin too. You click on a future date and it will create the daily not for that day so you can pop something in as a future reminder.

I've only been using Obsidian for a week but it's been a complete game changer for how I work.

Try the "Checklist" plugin. You can put a #todo tag above a section in your note and it will aggregate all your checklist items under that tag into the sidebar. It lets me put todos across all my notes and keep track of them.

I use an iOS Shortcut to create a daily note in Bear. It's simple but, works surprisingly well!

I use this every day :)

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