From ed394fd4dae30b043c59ec1708ce70ff8779a6a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Elian Doran Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:28:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Updated Day notes (markdown) --- Day-notes.md | 54 +--------------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 53 deletions(-) diff --git a/Day-notes.md b/Day-notes.md index 1f39c8f..376c7db 100644 --- a/Day-notes.md +++ b/Day-notes.md @@ -1,53 +1 @@ -A common pattern in note-taking is that a lot of notes will be centered around a certain date - e.g. you have some tasks which needs to be done on a certain date, you have meeting minutes from a certain date, you have your thoughts etc. and it all revolves around a date on which they occurred. For this reason, it makes sense to create a certain "day workspace" which will centralize all those notes relevant for a certain date. - -For this, Trilium provides a concept of "day note". Trilium semi-automatically generates a single note for each day. Under this note you can save all those relevant notes. - -Select an existing day note, and the menubar contains a calendar widget. Select any day to create a note for that day. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/69441971/116097284-88c8cc00-a699-11eb-8e5f-bbc19a63f823.png) - - -This pattern works well also because of [[cloning|Cloning notes]] functionality - note can appear in multiple places in the note tree, so besides appearing under day note, it can also be categorized into other notes. - -## Demo -[[images/day-notes.png]] - -You can see the structure of day notes appearing under "Journal" note - there's a note for the whole year 2017, under it, you have "12 - December" which then contains "18 - Monday". This is our "day note" which contains some text in its content and also has some child notes (some of them are from [[Task manager]]). - -You can also notice how this day note has [[promoted attribute|Promoted attributes]] "weight" where you can track your daily weight. This data is then used in [[Weight tracker]]. - -## Templates -Trilium provides [[template]] functionality, and it could be used together with day notes. - -You can define one of the following relations on the root of the journal (identified by `#calendarRoot` label): - -* yearTemplate -* monthTemplate -* dateTemplate - -All of these are relations. When Trilium creates a new note for year or month or date, it will take a look at the root and attach a corresponding `~template` relation to the newly created role. Using this, you can e.g. create your daily template with e.g. checkboxes for daily routine etc. - -## Date pattern - -It's possible to customize the title of generated date notes by defining a `#datePattern` label on a root calendar note (identified by `#calendarRoot` label). Following are possible values: - -* `{dayInMonthPadded} - {weekDay}` day notes are named e.g. "24 - Monday" -* `{dayInMonthPadded}: {weekDay3}` day notes are named e.g. "24: Mon" -* `{dayInMonthPadded}: {weekDay2}` day notes are named e.g. "24: Mo" -* `{isoDate} - {weekDay}` day notes are named e.g. "2020-12-24 - Monday" -* `{ordinal}` is replaced with the ordinal date (e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd) etc. - -## Month pattern -It is also possible to customize the title of generated month notes through the `#monthPattern` attribute, much like `#datePattern`. The options are: -- `{monthNumberPadded}` results in a number like `09` for September, and `11` for November -- `{month}` results in the full month name (e.g. `September` or `October`) -- `{shortMonth3}` is replaced with the first 3 letters of the month, e.g. Jan, Feb, etc. -- `{shortMonth4}` is replaced with the first 4 letters of the month, e.g. Sept, Octo, etc. - -The default is `{monthNumberPadded} - {month}` - -## Implementation - -Trilium has some special support for day notes in the form of [backend Script API](https://zadam.github.io/trilium/backend_api/BackendScriptApi.html) - see e.g. getDayNote() function. - -Day (and year, month) notes are created with a label - e.g. `#dateNote="2018-08-16"` this can then be used by other scripts to add new notes to day note etc. - -Journal also has relation `child:child:child:template=Day template` (see [[attribute inheritance]]) which effectively adds [[template]] to day notes (grand-grand-grand children of Journal). +See https://docs.triliumnotes.org/user-guide/advanced-usage/advanced-showcases/day-notes. \ No newline at end of file