Glossary

The words this manual uses, and where each is explained.

Anchor date — the date a journal's sequential numbering counts from: the note for that date gets each digit's start number. See Journals.

Auto-attach — connecting a note you created yourself, because its path matches a journal's folder and name template. See Notes.

Auto-create — creating today's note without being asked, when Obsidian starts and at midnight. See Notes.

Block — used for three things. A view block is one part of a view: a calendar, a list, a toolbar. A code block is a fence you type into a note. The navigation block is the code block a journal draws in its own notes. Custom intervals and Notelets are each the name of a view block as well.

Bulk add — connecting a whole folder of existing notes to a journal in one pass. See Notes.

Calendar decorations — the decorations on the main settings page, which apply vault-wide. See Decorations.

Code block — a fenced block such as ```journal-nav that Journals draws as a navigation strip, timeline, link list or notelet list. See Code blocks.

Condition — the test a decoration applies to a date: a title, a tag, a property, a note's size, a weekday. See Decorations.

Connect — making a note a journal's note by writing the journal's properties into it. Connect note to a journal does it for one note. See Notes.

Custom interval — a period of a length you choose, such as two weeks, counted from a start date. See Periods.

Decoration — a style — a color, a border, a shape, an icon — painted on a date when its conditions hold. See Decorations.

Digit — one counter in a journal's sequential numbering, such as release and sprint in Release4711Sprint1. See Journals.

Frontmatter, properties — the block of key: value pairs at the top of a note. Journals records a note's journal, date and numbers there. See Journals.

Journal — a set of notes, one per period of one length, sharing a folder, a name template and templates. See Journals.

Line, segment — a navigation block is a stack of lines, each made of segments: a piece of text that can link to a note. See Navigation blocks.

Maintenance — the section at the bottom of the main settings page that opens the vault check and settings snapshots. See Troubleshooting.

Navigation block — the strip of links a journal draws in its notes through the journal-nav code block. See Navigation blocks.

Notelet, notelet type — an extra note a journal keeps for a period beside the period's own note, such as a meeting note on a day; its type decides its name, folder and template. See Notelets.

Orphaned notelet — a notelet whose type was deleted while its notes were kept. See Notelets.

Period — the stretch of time one note covers: a day, week, month, quarter, year or custom interval. A note records its period by the period's first day. See Periods.

Question — something a journal asks when it creates a note, with the answer saved as a property or written into the note. See Questions.

Representative day — the day {{date}} stands for on a weekly journal: the day whose calendar year is the week's own year. See Variables.

Selected date — the date a view is centered on; its calendars and lists read from it. See Views.

Sequential numbers — numbers a journal assigns to its notes in order, such as Sprint 1, Sprint 2. See Journals.

Shelf — a group of journals that belong together, such as work or personal, used to scope views, commands and decorations. See Shelves.

Template — a note whose contents fill a new journal note, with its variables filled in. See Journals.

Template variable — a placeholder in double braces, such as {{date}}, filled in for each note. See Variables.

Timeline — the range of dates a journal writes notes for. See Journals.

Toolbar item — a button, shelf selector, period buttons, existing notes navigation or spacer inside a view's toolbar. See Views.

Vault check — the Maintenance tool that finds notes whose journal properties no longer fit and repairs them. See Troubleshooting.

View — a panel built from blocks — calendars, lists, toolbars — opened in a sidebar or a tab. See Views.

Week configuration — which day a week starts on and which week is week 1. See Periods.