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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.

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Setting Up Daily Notes

Configure daily notes in the Settings:
1

Open Settings

Click the settings icon or press Cmd+, (macOS) / Ctrl+, (Windows/Linux).
2

Go to Daily Notes

Select the Daily Notes tab in the sidebar.
3

Set folder

Choose where daily notes should be created (e.g., journal/, daily/, or leave blank for root).
The folder path must be relative to your space root. It will be created automatically if it doesn’t exist.

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Creating Daily Notes

Once configured, create today’s note:
Click the Daily Note button in the main toolbar.
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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Workflow Tips

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Morning Routine

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

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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.

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Linking Daily Notes

Reference other daily notes using wikilinks: 
# 2024-01-15

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

Planning for [[2024-01-16]]

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Templates (Manual)

Create a template note and copy its content to new daily notes: 
# YYYY-MM-DD

## Morning Review

## Tasks

## Notes

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

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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

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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.

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Advanced: Custom Date Formats

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

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Troubleshooting

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Daily note button doesn’t work

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

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Note created in wrong location

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

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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.