Workflow: Daily Note

Workflow: Daily Note

Create or enhance daily notes at 06 - Daily/YYYY/MM/YYYYMMDD.md.

Steps

Create Daily Note

1. Calculate date - today or specified date
2. Build path - 06 - Daily/YYYY/MM/YYYYMMDD.md
3. Generate frontmatter with daily note schema
4. Add navigation - prev/next links
5. Create file via Tools/NoteCreator.py daily

Enhance Existing Daily Note

1. Read existing note
2. Add structure - headings, task checkboxes
3. Add wikilinks - link mentioned people, projects, concepts
4. Suggest tags based on content
5. Update frontmatter - update updated timestamp

Tool Usage

# Create today's daily note
python Tools/NoteCreator.py daily

# Create for specific date
python Tools/NoteCreator.py daily --date 2026-02-09

# Append content to today's note
python Tools/NoteCreator.py daily --append "Met with team about API redesign"

# Create with initial content
python Tools/NoteCreator.py daily --content "## Focus\n- API redesign\n- Code review"

Daily Note Format

---
created: 2026-02-09T09:00
updated: 2026-02-09T09:00
title: "20260209"
type: daily-note
status: true
tags:
  - daily
  - 2026
  - 2026-02
date_formatted: 2026-02-09
---

# Daily Note - 2026-02-09

### Tasks
- [ ] Task 1

### Journal


### Navigation
<< [[20260208]] | **Today** | [[20260210]] >>

Context Files

• reference/vault-organization.md - Daily note frontmatter schema, naming conventions
• reference/markdown.md - Wikilink and callout syntax