Daily Notes¶

Daily Notes are dated Markdown notes for the work of a day - focus, discoveries, decisions, and follow-ups - without forcing every thought into a feature ticket.

Open from the menu bar Daily Notes control (calendar).

Daily Notes calendar beside dated notes for focus, notes, and follow-ups — The calendar marks today and days that already have a note. **Open Today** opens the dated file, with the DAILY NOTE strip and sections for focus, notes, and follow-ups.

Daily Notes overlay¶

Title: Daily Notes
Hint: Select a day to open or create its note
Open Today
Month navigation
Legend: Today

Clicking a day opens or creates that day’s note.

File format¶

Filename: yyyy-MM-dd.md
Includes Daily Note metadata so Nexum can recognize dated notes
Explorer can show a DAY badge (unless Hide daily-note styling is on)

Template¶

New Daily Notes are seeded from Preferences → Notes → Daily Note template.

Default structure:

## Today's Focus

## Notes

## Follow-ups

Tokens you can use in the template:

Token	Meaning
`{{date}}`	Date
`{{weekday}}`	Weekday
`{{longdate}}`	Long date
`{{month}}`	Month
`{{year}}`	Year
`{{day}}`	Day

Location¶

Preferences → Notes → Create Daily Notes in:

Notes root
Custom folder (relative path under the notes workspace; default suggestion Daily Notes)

Chrome¶

Open Daily Notes can show a DAILY NOTE strip with weekday and date.

How Daily Notes fit the system¶

Use Daily Notes for chronologically local memory. Promote anything durable into a regular note or a ticket:

Daily Note  →  [[Investigation Note]]  →  Kanban ticket