> [!example] > [[My daily notes]] ## Why This is the note I constantly refer to as I go throughout my day to streamline my usage of Obsidian. By writing down your thoughts, you offload your primary brain of anything weighing it down from anxieties and tasks. [[Externalize and offload as much as possible]]. ## What Used to give insight for your [[Weekly Reviews]] ### Structure #### Reminders After filling out your journal and looking at your tasks, you can now fill this out so whenever you open your daily note you're reminded. The highlight is the thing you are most looking forward today, which we can brainstorm during our [[#Morning Mindset]] journalling The big three are the three most important tasks you need to do today. Remember to review yesterday's improvement point. #### Tasks See the [[Tasks Plugin#Daily Notes]] for more information #### Today A place to journal the events and ideas of your day (and tasks if you are using Obsidian as your task manager). Whenever I finish a work block, I try to write at least a sentence on what I did and how I felt. This is so I stay mindful and have context when doing my daily [[#Reflection]] You can also keep track of the different updates or progresses you made throughout the day in different notes. For example, in I like to have preset sections for different parts of my day like my morning routine, work, and night routine. In these sections, I have my related [[Habits]] and routines as tasks I can check off to complete. #### Journals Prompts from the book [[High Performance Habits Application]] to help you implement [[High performance habits]] today. If you create a new checkbox, it will show up in [[#Tasks]] ##### Morning Mindset From [[High Performance Habits Application]] to help ##### Gratitude I like to start my day with appreciation by remembering yesterday. Alternatively, you may prefer to do it at the end of the day to remember then. #### Reflection Where you reflect and record on the day. Consider looking back at the journals you made in [[#Today]] to include in any of the reflection headers. This also helps you summarize the day during [[My weekly review workflow]] Most headers should already have guiding prompts to answer them properly so I won't get into them. ##### Obstacles Notable distractions, struggles, pain points throughout the day that you can reflect upon. [[#Tag-based logs]] ##### Content Log For the inputs created today, you can also use this as a time to remind yourself to sync with any [[Quick capture tools]] ##### Thoughts Shows thought notes from today, you can also consider implementing [[#Tag-based logs]] for any ideas you want to review or continue thinking about ##### Trackers This is for any key metrics you're tracking in your periodic reviews. Just input the value, then explain your reasoning under with the bullet points. #### Today's Notes Feel the dopamine surge as you grow your second brain 🤩 ### Metadata #### Headings Right now it looks something like this:  Normally you would have each link as it's own element when using a list property. But in the context of daily template, I use this field so I can quickly preview chosen headers in the weekly note note. I have it formatted the way it is so it has 3 of the emojis in a row, since otherwise it would be a 6-row list of each emoji that may take up more space than needed when looking at it in [[Weekly Reviews#Days]] ## How To see mine, visit [[My daily note workflow]] Giving yourself extra time to review and process the new notes at the end of the day can help with general maintenance and easier times when doing other [[Periodic reviews]]. Some of these headers like [[#Content Log]] and [[#Today's Notes]] aimed to remind you of the things added in that day, to double check and fix any loose threads not addressed. ### Tag-based logs To easily aggregate the key insights from the journalling you do in daily notes, we can create bullet lists that include tags like `#log/obstacle`, which we can then query for in view notes or periodic notes. For example, you can have an entry in [[#Today]] that is something like: ```md - #log/obstacle Example obstacle - Some more details on it ``` If we also set up [[List Callouts Plugin]] to have a list callout styling for the tag, it will end up looking something like this: ![[Daily Obstacle Log With List Callout Styling.webp]] All we have to do is journal in our daily notes, and these important logs can be automatically organized. As of now, this log can be seen in two places: - [[Weekly Reviews#Logs]] - If you decide to use it in a different periodic note (ex. quarter, year, it will also only show the logs in that timeframe) - [[My Obstacles]] - Will show a paginated list, sorted by the file name as the date in reverse alphabetical order The result will look something like this, where it will show the children bullets and group these logs by day: ![[Daily Obstacle Log Query Showcase.webp]] These also don't have to be root-level bullet lists, as long as it's a bullet list, it will be shown in the query. Both notes use the same [[Datacore]] query to display the logs: ```` ```datacorejsx const { PeriodicLogsWithTags } = await dc.require("Hidden/Datacore/Views/PeriodicLogs.jsx"); const tags = ["#log/obstacle"]; function View() { return <PeriodicLogsWithTags tags={tags}/> } return View ``` ```` When using it somewhere else, just be sure to change the `#log/obstacle` field with the tag you want to search for. Currently there is no support for multiple tags, but you can achieve that just by having them nested, since `#log` would also consider any lines with `#log/obstacle` ##### Examples In the vault `My Obstacles` is set up, but you might also want to consider setting it up for: - Smaller [[Thoughts]] - Emotions or feelings throughout the day - This can be separated into their own metadata fields so you can just have something like `#log/emotions/sad i watched a sad movie`, and you can have a query that looks for all times you felt sad ### Editing Preview Headers If you want to edit what is shown in the hover preview emojis for [[Weekly Reviews#Days]] Using [[Bulk rename using regex in Obsidian]], I do the following: Create regex to **find** the heading link (in this case it's only replacing two headers) ``` \[\[(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})#Thoughts\|💭\]\] \[\[\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}#Improvements\|💪\]\] ``` **Replace** with the new version ``` [[$1#Today|✏️]] [[$1#Thoughts|💭]] ```