Variables

Variables are written in double braces — {{date}}, {{index}} — and filled in for the note being created. They work in a journal's Note name template and Folder, in template notes, in navigation block segments, in a notelet type's name and folder, and in the markdown template view block. Each journal's settings has a Supported variables link that opens the same list for that journal, with its own date format, numbering digits and questions filled in.

Where each variable works

Variable	Note name	Folder	Template content	Navigation segment
{{date}}, {{start_date}}, {{end_date}}	✓	✓	✓	✓
{{week_of_month}}	✓	✓	✓	✓
{{journal_name}}	✓	✓	✓	✓
numbering digits — {{index}}	✓	✓	✓	✓
question answers — {{mood}}	✓ ¹	✓ ¹	✓	✓
{{current_date}}, {{time}}, {{current_time}}	✓ ²	✓ ²	✓	✓
{{note_name}}, {{title}}		✓	✓	✓
{{relative_date}}				✓
{{journal_link(name)}}	✓ ²	✓ ²	✓	✓
{{notelet_index}}	notelet types only	notelet types only	notelet types only

¹ Not a yes/no, long text or note link answer — see Questions. ² Allowed, but a name or folder that uses them cannot be read back, so notes you create yourself will not auto-attach. The settings page warns.

A notelet type's name and folder take its journal's variables, with the type's own questions in place of the journal's, plus {{notelet_index}}. The Markdown template view block is covered in Views.

The variables

• {{journal_name}} — the journal's name.

• {{date}} — the period's date, in the journal's Default date format unless you give one: {{date:YYYY-MM-DD}}, using Moment.js format tokens. For day, month, quarter, year and custom intervals it is the period's first day. For a week it is the week's representative day — the day whose calendar year is the week's own year, which is the Thursday under ISO 8601. That is what makes {{date:YYYY}} give the right year for a week that straddles New Year, whichever week configuration you use.

• {{start_date}}, {{end_date}} — the period's first and last day, formatted and shifted like {{date}}. For a custom interval whose end you moved by hand, {{end_date}} is the moved end.

• {{week_of_month}} — which week of its month the note's week is, counting the week that holds the 1st as week 1. It follows Week configuration, so it agrees with the calendar's week numbers. Because a week can straddle two months, it counts within the month of the date it is read from, and date modifications choose that date: {{week_of_month}} counts within the note's own month, while {{week_of_month<endOf=week>}} counts within the month the week ends in. Pair it with a month read the same way so the two agree: {{date<endOf=week>:MMMM}} week {{week_of_month<endOf=week>}} names 31 August 2026 "September week 1". It offsets and renders as an ordinal like a numbering digit: {{week_of_month-1}}, {{week_of_month:o}}. It is worked out from the date, so changing the start of the week later changes what the plugin would call a note, while notes already on disk keep their names.

• {{index}} — a journal's sequential number. The first digit is named index unless you rename it; each further digit is its own variable under the name you give it. Numbering is on by default for custom intervals. {{index+3}} adds three, {{index-1}} subtracts one, {{index:o}} renders an ordinal ("4th"), and they combine: {{index+3:o}}. A name built with offsets and ordinals is still read back correctly.

• A question adds a variable under its Variable name — a question named mood is {{mood}}. A date answer takes every date modification. An unanswered question renders empty in template content.

• {{notelet_index}} — a notelet's number within its period, restarting every period. Only in a notelet type's own name, folder and templates. With Number each notelet off it still renders, but the number is not stored on the notelet. Offsets and ordinals work as for {{index}}.

• {{note_name}}, {{title}} — the note's name. Not in the note name template itself, since the name has to exist first. In a navigation segment, the name of the journal's note for the period that part of the block shows — or the name it would get — whatever the segment links to.

• {{current_date}} — the day the note is written, not its period. It is a date, so its format holds a date only: {{current_date:YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm}} renders the time as 00:00, and HH:mm:ss as 00:00:00. For the time of day, use {{time}}.

• {{time}}, {{current_time}} — the time the note is written, HH:mm unless you give a format: {{time:HH:mm:ss}}. For a full timestamp: {{current_date:YYYY-MM-DD}} {{time:HH:mm:ss}}.

• {{relative_date}} — "Yesterday", "Today", "Last Tuesday", "This month", "3 weeks ago" and so on, in navigation segments.

• {{journal_link(daily)}} — the vault path of the note in another journal for the same date, whether or not it exists yet. Most useful in template content and the markdown template view block. Wrap it in a link yourself: [[{{journal_link(daily)}}]]. A date that journal does not cover leaves it unresolved.

Date modifications

Any date or time variable, {{week_of_month}}, a date answer and journal_link can be shifted before it is formatted:

• Shift — {{date+5d}} adds five days. Units: y years, q quarters, m months, w weeks, d days, h hours; + or -. {{date-1w}}, {{journal_link(daily)+1d}}.
• Boundary — {{date<startOf=week>}}, {{date<endOf=month>}}. Units: decade, year, quarter, month, week, day, hour.
• They combine, before the format: {{date+1w<startOf=week>:MMM DD, YYYY}}. Shifts apply first, then boundaries, then the format, whatever order you write them in.
• Dates have day precision, so h and <startOf=hour> change nothing on them — they only move {{time}} and {{current_time}}. <startOf=decade> applies to dates only.

{{date<startOf=decade>:YYYY}}s names a decade, such as 1950s — see Filing notes by decade for a folder built on it.

A {{…}} the plugin cannot read — a misspelled variable, an unclosed brace — is left in the text as written.