Daily Notes
A Daily Note is a built-in typed Object tied to one calendar day. Lar creates at most one Daily Note for a date, so opening the same day again returns to the same Object instead of creating a duplicate.
Create or open today’s Daily Note
Section titled “Create or open today’s Daily Note”Choose Today beside Calendar in the desktop sidebar, or run Open today in the command palette. You can also open Calendar, switch to Day view, and choose Daily Note.
If the day already has a note, Lar opens it. If not, Lar creates the date-keyed Daily Note first.
In Calendar:
- an existing note appears as a body preview card;
- an empty note shows Open daily note…;
- a day without a note shows ＋ Daily Note.
The preview is read-only. Select it to edit the full Object.
Create a Daily Note from a template
Section titled “Create a Daily Note from a template”Open the ⋯ menu beside the Daily Note section in Calendar. You can:
- choose Empty Note;
- search existing Daily Note templates;
- choose New Template to create one.
Choosing a template creates or opens that day’s Daily Note with the template applied, then opens it. A template can prefill typed properties and body blocks.
To manage templates more broadly, open the Daily Note Object Type settings and choose Templates.
Automatically create one each day
Section titled “Automatically create one each day”Open Settings → Daily Notes, then enable Create a daily note each day. Lar checks on launch and at the day boundary. Because creation is date-keyed, repeated checks still create at most one note for that day.
Under Default template for auto-created notes, choose a Daily Note template or Empty Note. This setting applies only when Lar creates the Daily Note automatically. It is separate from the Object Type’s normal default template, so manually created Daily Notes can use a different template or none.
Carry unchecked todos forward
Section titled “Carry unchecked todos forward”Enable Carry over unchecked todos in Settings → Daily Notes. When Lar creates a new Daily Note, it copies unchecked todo blocks from the most recent Daily Note into the new one.
The original todo blocks stay in the earlier note. Rollover copies unfinished work; it does not edit history or move blocks out of the source note.
If there is no earlier Daily Note, or it has no unchecked todos, there is nothing to copy.
Link todos to Task Objects
Section titled “Link todos to Task Objects”Enable Link todos to Tasks in Settings → Daily Notes. Lar mirrors Daily Note todo checkboxes into linked Task Objects:
- the Task is dated to the Daily Note’s day;
- it appears in Calendar and the Tasks dashboard;
- checking the todo completes its Task.
Use this when a checkbox should participate in scheduling and Task views. Leave it off when todos are only informal notes for that day.
See Tasks for Task dates, contexts, priorities, and recurrence. Enable Task management if you also want the dedicated Tasks destination and dashboard controls.
Use Daily Notes in Calendar
Section titled “Use Daily Notes in Calendar”The Calendar’s views use Daily Notes differently:
- Month is a month of Daily Note preview cards.
- Week and Three days show a compact Daily Note area for each visible day.
- Day combines the Daily Note with Tasks, dated references, and Objects created on that date.
- compact Calendar presents the selected day’s note in its timeline.
Creating an Object on a day does not automatically put it inside that day’s Daily Note. It appears under Created on this day; add a link or embed if you also want it referenced from the note body.
A practical daily workflow
Section titled “A practical daily workflow”- Enable automatic creation and select a lightweight template.
- Open Today at the start of the day.
- Capture thoughts in the body and use todo blocks for actions.
- Enable Task linking for todos that need scheduling or context.
- Review unchecked todos on the next day after rollover.
- Keep the original note as an unchanged record of what was planned that day.
Troubleshooting
Section titled “Troubleshooting”If the wrong template appears, check both the Daily Notes setting and the Daily Note Type’s default template. The setting named Default template for auto-created notes wins only for automatic creation.
If a todo does not appear in Tasks, confirm that Link todos to Tasks and Task management are enabled, then check that the block is a todo checkbox rather than an ordinary bullet.
If a Daily Note seems missing, open the date from Calendar. Lar resolves it by date even when the Object title or body is empty.