Journals for Obsidian

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Journals for Obsidian ​

Journals keeps notes for days, weeks, months and any span of time you choose — sprints, terms, quarters — and gives you calendars, navigation and commands to move between them. This manual covers every setting, code block and migration path.

Getting started ​

A new vault comes with a Calendar view in the right sidebar, but no journals, so the calendar has no notes to open yet.

  1. Open Settings → Community plugins → Journals and press the + button (Create new journal) in the Journals section. Give the journal a name, pick daily under I'll be writing, and Create.
  2. Optionally, make a template note — say Templates/Daily.md — holding the navigation code block below, and add its path under the journal's Templates. Every new note then carries links to the days around it.
  3. Click today in the Calendar view, or run Open today's note from the command palette. Today's note is created at the root of the vault, named after its date.
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How do I… ​

Looking for what a setting does? Settings maps every setting to the page that explains it.

Basics ​

  1. Periods — what a journal can write one note per.
  2. Journals — where notes go, what they are called, what goes in them.
  3. Notes — how notes get into a journal, including notes you already have.
  4. Views — put a calendar on screen.
  5. Navigation blocks — links to the previous, next and surrounding periods, inside each note.

Going further ​

  • Shelves — keep work and personal journals apart.
  • Questions — ask for a mood, a goal or a date when a note is created.
  • Notelets — extra notes for a period, such as meetings on a day.
  • Decorations — change how dates look when conditions are met.
  • Commands — open notes from the command palette, hotkeys and the ribbon.

Reference and help ​

Guides ​