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Daily Notes

Capture thoughts and logs with automatically dated notes

Daily notes provide a frictionless way to capture thoughts, journal entries, or daily logs. Glyph automatically creates a note for today’s date with a single click.

Setting Up Daily Notes

Configure daily notes in the Settings:

Open Settings

Click the settings icon or press Cmd+, (macOS) / Ctrl+, (Windows/Linux).

Go to Daily Notes

Select the Daily Notes tab in the sidebar.

Set folder

Choose where daily notes should be created (e.g., journal/, daily/, or leave blank for root).

Note

The folder path must be relative to your space root. It will be created automatically if it doesn’t exist.

Creating Daily Notes

Once configured, create today’s note:

Click the Daily Note button in the main toolbar.

Press the daily note keyboard shortcut (customizable in settings).

Open the command palette and search for “Open Daily Note”.

Glyph will:

  1. Check if today’s note already exists
  2. If it exists, open it
  3. If not, create a new note with today’s date as the filename
  4. Open the note in the editor

File Naming

Daily notes use ISO date format for filenames:

YYYY-MM-DD.md

Examples:

  • 2024-01-15.md
  • 2024-12-31.md
  • 2026-03-03.md

This format ensures:

  • Chronological sorting: Files sort naturally by date
  • International standard: ISO 8601 date format
  • No ambiguity: Year, month, and day are always clear

Default Content

When Glyph creates a new daily note, it starts with:

# YYYY-MM-DD

The heading matches the filename, giving you a clean starting point to add content.

Folder Organization

Choose a folder structure that fits your workflow:

Folder: daily/

All daily notes in one folder:

daily/
  2024-01-01.md
  2024-01-02.md
  2024-01-03.md
  ...

Simple and easy to browse. Works well if you search more than you browse.

Folder: journal/

Manually organize by year:

journal/
  2024/
    2024-01-01.md
    2024-12-31.md
  2025/
    2025-01-01.md

Better for long-term journaling. You’ll need to create year folders manually.

Folder: (empty)

Daily notes in your space root:

2024-01-01.md
2024-01-02.md
Projects/
Reference/

Quick access, but can clutter your root folder over time.

Workflow Tips

Morning Routine

  1. Open Glyph
  2. Click the daily note button
  3. Start writing your thoughts, tasks, or goals for the day

Task Tracking

Combine daily notes with task lists:

# 2024-01-15

## Tasks
- [ ] Review project proposal
- [ ] Call client
- [ ] Update documentation

## Notes
- Met with design team...

Tasks from daily notes appear in the Tasks pane when scheduled.

Linking Daily Notes

Reference other daily notes using wikilinks:

# 2024-01-15

Follow-up from [[2024-01-14]]

Planning for [[2024-01-16]]

Templates (Manual)

Create a template note and copy its content to new daily notes:

# YYYY-MM-DD

## Morning Review

## Tasks

## Notes

## Evening Reflection

Tip

Keep a _daily-template.md file in your daily notes folder to copy from when you want a structured format.

Integration with Other Features

Daily notes are indexed like any other note:

  • Search content: Find specific entries across all dates
  • Filter by tag: Use tags in daily notes and search by them
  • Recent notes: Daily notes appear in “Recent” views

Tags

Add tags to categorize daily entries:

# 2024-01-15

#journal #reflection

Today I learned...

When you link to other notes from your daily notes, those notes show the backlink:

# 2024-01-15

Discussed [[Project Alpha]] with the team.

The “Project Alpha” note will show a backlink from your daily note.

Advanced: Custom Date Formats

Warning

Glyph currently only supports ISO date format (YYYY-MM-DD) for daily notes. Custom formats are not available.

The ISO format is intentionally the only option because:

  • Sortability: Files sort chronologically in any file browser
  • Consistency: No ambiguity between date formats
  • Compatibility: Works across all operating systems and locales

Troubleshooting

Daily note button doesn’t work

Solution: Check that you’ve set a daily notes folder in Settings > Daily Notes.

Note created in wrong location

Solution: Verify your daily notes folder path is relative (e.g., journal/, not /journal/).

Can’t find old daily notes

Solution: Use search to find notes by date or content. Search for 2024-01 to find all January 2024 notes.

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